Political Economy
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The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection
Who is allowed to come to the UK through the ‘safe and legal routes’?
- Immigration
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How does Labour Intend to Achieve Economic Growth? A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture
The new Labour government's overriding priority is economic growth—and chancellor Rachel Reeves's March 2024 Mais lecture is the clearest statement of how they intend to achieve it.
- Work & Trade Unions
- Trade
- Labour Party
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A Speech to Win an Election: A Response to Rachel Reeves’s Mais Lecture
Giving a statement of economic policy is always fraught with danger for any opposition politician and even more so for a Labour politician.
- Labour Party
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Changing Attitudes, Changing Coalitions: The Politics of Immigration before and after Brexit
For the first time, voters who see immigration as an opportunity outnumber those who see it as a threat.
- Elections & Campaigning
- Immigration
- Brexit
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Repairing the United Kingdom's Asylum System
Delays in the appeal system, lack of focus on voluntary and involuntary departures, misuse of detention spaces and improving the integration of refugees all need urgent attention.
- Immigration
- Racism & Antisemitism
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Small Boats, Big Contracts: Extracting Value from the UK's Post-Brexit Asylum ‘Crisis’
The issue of post-Brexit asylum policy in the UK.
- Immigration
- Brexit
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‘Full-Fat, Semi-Skimmed or Skimmed?’ The Political Economy of Immigration Policy since Brexit
Examining the political economy of immigration policy.
- Conservative Party
- Immigration
- Brexit
- Labour Party
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Immigration and Asylum Policy after Brexit: An Introduction
Recent immigration and asylum policies reflect the ambivalent, unstable and unresolved meanings of Brexit itself.
- Immigration
- Brexit
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The Persistence of the Hostile Environment after the Windrush Scandal
From a lack of measurable impact on migration statistics to the Windrush scandal, why does the hostile environment persist?
- Conservative Party
- Immigration
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The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection
Evaluating the UK's ‘safe and legal (humanitarian)' immigration routes.
- Immigration
- Brexit
