New data points to misplaced UK clampdown on ‘overstaying’ international students.
The government has pledged to end the free movement of people between the EU and UK and implement a new immigration system by March 2019, when the UK leaves the European Union.
Theresa May has been the longest-serving home secretary since the 19th century, but her tenure is distinctive for other reasons, too.
A senior Conservative former minister has defected from the Leave campaign days before the referendum, accusing them of spreading “hate and xenophobia”.
In the final days before the EU referendum, the talk has turned to immigration, with those in the Leave camp claiming that immigration into the UK could be brought under control only if we leave the EU, but with successive governments apparently unable to rein in immigration form outside the EU either, that seems very unlikely.