Thom Brooks Articles

With the European Union referendum on 23 June fast approaching, today’s migration statistics will cause more headaches for the government. First, the good news for David Cameron. The latest figures show net migration fell. Cameron’s problem is it was by the smallest...

Today’s Conservative party annual conference was addressed by home secretary Theresa May in a long-anticipated speech on immigration. Many expected this to set out her stall as a potential successor to David Cameron. But what we heard was not very promising. May’s...

August might be the silly season, but there’s nothing funny about the awful images from Calais and Europe’s borders. Hundreds of people with nothing but the clothes on their backs and hope for the future. Their desperation is palpable and moving as European states...

In 2002, Tony Blair’s Labour government launched a Life in the United Kingdom Advisory Group. Its objectives were to provide recommendations for what kind of information should be incorporated in a new ‘Life in the UK’ citizenship test and how citizenship ceremonies...