Home Office crackdown on migrants already in Britain would hit two million people

Bureaucracy has stifled Labour’s migration agenda

Reporting in The Times this week has revealed that nearly half of the 400,000 migrants who were due for deportation in the past two years have been allowed to remain in the UK. In August 2024, the Home Office compiled a list of those who had either overstayed their visas or whose asylum claims had been rejected, and who consequently had no right to be in Britain. Of these, around 200,000 had been declared “non-removable” by Home Office lawyers. …

Home Office crackdown on migrants already in Britain would hit two million people

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s hardline immigration reforms will hit at least two million people, including around half a million children already in the UK and could make child poverty worse, a new analysis claims. A study of Home Office official data suggests that as of the end of last year, between 2.06 million and 2.47 million people currently hold immigration status that directly leads to settlement, including between 426,000 and 593,000 …