CJ McKinney
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Immigration specialist @commonslibrary, consultant @migobs, child of the Common Travel Area. Views, if any, my own.
London
Joined October 2011
Biggest overhaul of legal migration model in 50 years announced Illegal migrants and arrivals reliant on benefits face waiting between 20 and 30 years to settle – the toughest in Europe. https://t.co/iGgsTfEXPl
gov.uk
Illegal migrants and arrivals reliant on benefits face waiting between 20 and 30 years to settle – the toughest in Europe.
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Revised estimates from the ONS suggest that net migration reached a peak of 944,000 in 2023 (rather than 906,000) and fell faster in 2024, to 345,000 (not 431,000). This is why the ONS revised the figures and what changed, in three posts...
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Net migration (immigration minus emigration) of non-EU citizens to the UK was over 1 million in 2023, but almost halved to 528,000 in 2024, according to revised Office for National Statistics estimates.
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Previous govts - back to Blair’s - tried & failed to streamline asylum appeals. If these plans (which are a bit fuzzy) are to work @ukhomeoffice must invest in its decision-making capacity & capability, & in legal access for asylum claimants so most decisions are right first time
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The Home Secretary will also be making a statement to MPs this evening, although not until after three Urgent Question debates, the first of which has just begun
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The Home Office has now published its much-trailed policy paper on changes to asylum rules
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My colleague Melanie has updated our Border Security Bill briefing ahead of its return to the House of Commons on Weds 17 Nov
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"Instead of a casework system specifically designed to process high volumes of personal data, the MoD was inappropriately relying on Excel spreadsheets stored on a SharePoint site".
We've published our report on the Afghan data breach. We found that @DefenceHQ hasn't done enough to stop an incident similar to the 2022 data breach from happening again and make recommendations about data security, accountability and reporting processes. Full report ⬇️
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The Border Security Bill (remember that?) is back before MPs on Wednesday, after the House of Lords finishes its consideration today.
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Some Conservative parliamentarians have been pushing for this - see for example
hansard.parliament.uk
Hansard record of the item : 'Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill' on Monday 13 October 2025.
Lady Chief Justice says plans under way to publish all First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) decisions Full rollout of new platform to publish all First-tier Tribunal (IAC) judgments expected within months
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Excl: Shabana Mahmood to impose Trump-style visa bans on three countries as part of a package of measures to boost deportations Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face visa penalties unless they take back illegal migrants in the UK: https://t.co/QKXICOfnTK
thetimes.com
Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face Trump-style sanctions if they do not start taking back more illegal migrants and criminals
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Impossible to understand our moment in history without grasping that for many people reality is increasingly a marginal phenomenon that happens around the edges of screen time.
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Small wonder that under-occupied hotels find housing asylum seekers an attractive commercial proposition
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Epping’s application for a permanent injunction against use of the Bell Hotel to house asylum seekers dismissed. No flagrant breach of planning control in change of use demanding an urgent remedy. No declaratory relief granted either https://t.co/wkzOXx3V8a
Judgment at midday today on the future of the Bell Hotel in Epping, a place of protests and a series of court cases over the summer. Will the court order it to be permanently closed to asylum seekers for breach of planing law, or not?
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I was honoured, as Taoiseach, to represent the Government and lay a wreath at the Remembrance Day ceremonies in Enniskillen. A deeply moving event to remember those who have fallen in past wars, and in particular those who were killed in the Enniskillen bombing in 1987.
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“This individual was detected by biometrics and detained immediately. His case will be expedited, and he will be returned to France as quickly as possible”.
bbc.co.uk
The man was detected by biometrics, detained immediately, and will be deported as soon as possible, the Home Office says.
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"That is the basic problem that the Government face: the [visa] routes that they can more easily control are the ones that are more economically beneficial", expert adviser Brian Bell tells MPs.
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Two notices have just appeared in the London Gazette, the 1st for Letters Patent removing “HRH” & “Prince” from Andrew Mountbatten Windsor (still with no hyphen) & the 2nd for a Royal Warrant instructing the Lord Chancellor to remove the Duke of York from the Roll of the Peerage
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