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Oct 8, 2024 | 
ein.org.uk | CJ McKinney |Steven Kennedy |Melanie Gower |Georgina Sturge
The House of Commons Library has updated its helpful briefing on the 'no recourse to public funds' (NRPF) policy. You can read a full copy of the briefing below, and you can download the original 20-page document here. As the briefing explains, NRPF is a condition imposed on certain people subject to immigration control to restrict their access to benefits and other public funds. The briefing provides a concise and factual overview of the policy.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
commonslibrary.parliament.uk | Georgina Sturge
Overall turnout and comparison over timeTurnout at the 2024 general election was 59.7%, which was the lowest at a general election since 2001. Turnout was 7.6 percentage points lower than in 2019.This represented the largest drop in turnout between elections since between 1997 and 2001. The chart below shows turnout at general elections since 1918, during which time it has varied between 57.2% (1918) and 83.5% (1950).
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
commonslibrary.parliament.uk | Georgina Sturge
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Caroline Knowles |Ben Judah |Peter Foster |Georgina Sturge
You left your job at The Economist to open Backstory, an independent bookshop in Balham, London. Much of our understanding of election cycles comes, necessarily, from short-form articles. How can nonfiction books help us understand British politics in 2024? In the UK, our election campaigns are very short. Six or seven weeks vs. a couple of years in the United States. This means that our election coverage is very focused on personality and on polling.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
ein.org.uk | Melanie Gower |Georgina Sturge
Summary Concise and factual briefing published ahead of Parliamentary debate tomorrow on deportation of foreign criminals A new Parliamentary research briefing on the deportation and removal of foreign national offenders (FNOs) was published last week by the House of Commons Library. You can read a full copy of the briefing below or download the original 11-page briefing here.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
commonslibrary.parliament.uk | Georgina Sturge |Melanie Gower
There will be a Westminster Hall debate on the deportation of foreign national offenders on 7 February 2024, led by Rachel Maclean MP. The Home Secretary has a duty to make a deportation order in respect of non-British or Irish citizens who have been convicted of an offence in the UK and sentenced to at least 12 months’ imprisonment, unless certain exceptions apply. He also has discretionary powers to deport non-British citizens if he considers it to be “conducive to the public good”.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
commonslibrary.parliament.uk | CJ McKinney |Georgina Sturge
The British Citizenship (Northern Ireland) Bill 2023-24 would make it easier for people from the Republic of Ireland who live in Northern Ireland to become British citizens. It is a Private Member’s Bill sponsored by Gavin Robinson of the Democratic Unionist Party. Second reading is scheduled for 26 January 2024; further progress would depend on Government support for the measure.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
commonslibrary.parliament.uk | CJ McKinney |Georgina Sturge
Between June 2022 and June 2023, almost 78,000 people secured long-term visas to work in UK social care after the Government eased immigration rules for the sector. The immigration minister said at an October 2023 Conservative Party conference event that care worker visa numbers are now very high. Expert advisers had recommended allowing care staff to be sponsored for these visas to address labour shortages.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
lrb.co.uk | Arunabh Ghosh |Rory Smith |Georgina Sturge |Paul Johnson
At a dinner with the American ambassador in 2007, Li Keqiang, future premier of China, said that when he wanted to know what was happening to the country’s economy, he looked at the numbers for electricity use, rail cargo and bank lending. There was no point using the official GDP statistics, Li said, because they are ‘man-made’. That remark, which we know about thanks to WikiLeaks, is fascinating for two reasons.
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Feb 8, 2023 | 
commonslibrary.parliament.uk | CJ McKinney |Georgina Sturge
Constituents sometimes have trouble getting visas for family members to visit from abroad. While visa decisions depend on the individual circumstances, there are some common pitfalls that may explain a visa being refused. These include failing to provide enough evidence of meeting the criteria. The main UK visitor visa available is called Standard Visitor.
