Zack Polanski's strategy as a new leader delivered success at the start of 2026 - but has the bubble burst? This is the fourth in a series reviewing the polling and electoral performance of the partie...

UK and Brussels to go ahead with key November meeting after agreeing to kick talks on industrial subsidies into next year

According to one poll, Romanians are the UK’s least-wanted European migrants.

MPS’ representative survey of attitudes in Scotland provides a detailed view of what people think of immigration and how that is changing. Key Findings: The survey was carried out between 1st- 4th Feb...

Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London The “complex and unsettling” story of what Britain knew during the Holocaust is being explored amid plans to create a new permanent national memorial. An exhibition highlighting how news of the atrocity reached Britain much earlier than is commonly understood will tour the country after being viewed privately by MPs at Portcullis House on the parliamentary estate at Westminster in September. Continue reading...

Speaking before the party conference, the housing secretary says Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans would affect care workers

New prime minister has been a longstanding critic of the project

British Future at the 2026 party conferences, with events in Brighton and Liverpool exploring Europe, race, immigration and generational change.

In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...

Charity’s head coach ‘shocked’ after Sunderland council leader says it will not support ‘politically charged’ groups Anti-racism education in some schools will be scrapped after a city council now led by Reform UK ended its 30-year support for the charity Show Racism the Red Card. Gary Bennett, the former Sunderland AFC captain and the charity’s head coach, said he was “shocked and disappointed” that Nigel Farage’s party had withdrawn vital funding. Continue reading...

Prime minister Andy Burnham has called Brexit one of the “wrong turns” taken in recent decades. His government will seek closer links between Britain and the European Union – rescheduling this Novembe...

The government wants to reduce net overseas migration to 225,000 people by 2028.

Nearly half of minority ethnic respondents in a poll say they have faced prejudice over the past year Many Britons feel inequality is worsening and that discrimination has become more common, according to a thinktank study. The report by British Future has found that people across ethnic groups believe racial equality is worsening in Britain. One in six people are from minority ethnic backgrounds. Continue reading...

Proposals will ‘punish’ low-paid migrants doing essential work in public services and create a new staffing crisis in social care, says motion passed at TUC

Heather Rolfe aruges that campaigners for a closer relationship with the EU will find it challenging to engage young people in a debate that has passed them by.

Editorial: The architects of Brexit know it has failed. That presents Andy Burnham with an opportunity to set a bolder new agenda

This briefing provides an overview of attitudes toward immigration in Britain.

Heather Rolfe aruges that campaigners for a closer relationship with the EU will find it challenging to engage young people in a debate that has passed them by.

Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment

Heather Rolfe aruges that campaigners for a closer relationship with the EU will find it challenging to engage young people in a debate that has passed them by.

Bridget Phillipson to announce creation of unit which will make class a key part of its equalities agenda

A citizens’ assembly organised by the Home Affairs Select Committee has been held to discuss the issues around legal migration.

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It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right

Five EU states are negotiating with Kigali to host rejected asylum seekers under Brussels' new return law. Rights groups warn of abuses, and past deals delivered only a handful of deportees at huge co...

There were more than 140,000 admissions into prison in England and Wales in 2017—the highest number in western Europe, according to a new report published today (24 June 2019) by the Prison Reform Tru...

Jonathan Portes asks how useful a measure immigration statistics are and argues that they have served to legitimate politics of racialised grievance.