Immigration
Fact checks about immigration statistics, asylum seekers border control and potential impacts on public services and opinions
Did David Blunkett propose sending asylum seekers abroad in 2004?
We look into Boris Johnson’s claims at PMQs that the former Labour Home Secretary first proposed plans similar to the government’s deal with Rwanda.
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Single occupancy council tax discount can’t be revoked if you don’t take in Ukrainian refugees
Claims on Twitter and Facebook say that an elderly man in a London borough was told by his council he could be forced to take in a Ukrainian family.
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Historic claim on refugee and pensioner incomes is still wrong
The post also compares Germany’s maximum state pension to the UK’s. Germany’s state pensions are difficult to compare to ours as theirs are based on income whilst the UK’s isn’t.
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No evidence ‘vast majority’ of people crossing Channel in small boats are economic migrants
Research indicates that the majority of people crossing the Channel go on to be granted asylum, but the full picture is not covered by official statistics.
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Did Labour invent the ‘hostile environment’?
Michael Gove recently claimed that the concept was conceived under a Labour Home Secretary.
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Home Office claim to have launched first Ukrainian visa scheme lacks context
Many countries taking Ukrainian refugees never required visas in the first place. Others have waived visa schemes entirely.
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No evidence asylum seekers have used pets to argue against deportation
A previously debunked claim about people being granted the right to live in the UK because they own a pet here has reappeared.
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Resettlement figures don’t give us the full picture on refugee numbers
It’s true that the UK has resettled the highest number of refugees since 2015, compared to other European countries.
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The facts about people seeking asylum in the UK
The number of people applying for asylum in the UK looks to increase slightly this year, but the proportion who are arriving in boats across the Channel has increased significantly.
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Peston claim that immigration is top public concern based on his own findings
Most recent Ipsos Mori and YouGov polls don’t list this as the public’s number one concern.
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