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Archive for September, 2008

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Ian Birrell has written an excellent article in the Independent on the perniciousness of Britain’s new points-based immigration system. Read it here I have written a couple of pieces for the Guardian this week about Frank Field’s plan for "balanced migration" and the government’s points system. Read them here and here

Posted 11 Sep 2008 in Blog, Britain, Immigration
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The Guardian, 11 September 2008. We need an immigration system that favours care workers, not oligarchs and investment bankers

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The Guardian, 8 September 2008. Field and Soames would like businesses to police immigration quotas – a proposal unworkable, inefficient and illiberal