Barbara Roche Articles

When Ed Miliband talks about 'bearing down on immigration,' and apologises for Labour immigration policy a full decade ago, the message to voters is clear: Labour accepts too many people were let into Britain. But ask how Labour will stop people coming into the...

Over the past few weeks we have seen a ferocious debate about whether the United Kingdom Independence party’s European election campaign is racist. But if the comments that Ukip has made in relation to Romanians, Bulgarians and Albanians had referred to Jamaican,...

In the past few weeks each of the party leaders have said there needs to be a public debate on immigration. Well, we’ve got one, but it’s not been a balanced debate. The emphasis has been almost exclusively on costs with little discussion of the benefits. Where the...