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Record number of foreigners claiming benefits

  EU citizens account for the biggest proportion of total migrants receiving Universal Credit Daily Telegraph 19/08/26 The number of foreigners claiming benefits hit a fresh high, days after Reform promised to ban claims by overseas nationals. Almost 1.3 million migrants were claiming Universal Credit (UC) in May 2026, according to figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions, roughly 20,000 higher than a year ago. Citizens from the EU accounted for the biggest proportion of the total, with about half of the foreigners claiming Britain’s main unemployment benefit coming from the Continent. Those with indefinite leave to remain, who have usually lived and worked in the UK for at least five years, accounted for 233,000 of the total. Foreign nationals can generally start claiming welfare on the same terms as British citizens once they are granted settled status or indefinite leave to remain. Asylum seekers are also eligible after they have been granted refugee status. The...
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Reform pledges to make jobless clean streets for benefits

  Claimants fit to work would have to volunteer for 20 hours a week, says Robert Jenrick Daily Telegraph 17/08/26 Benefits claimants who have been jobless for more than a year could have to clean streets to keep their payments under a Reform UK government. Robert Jenrick , Reform’s Treasury spokesman, announced on Monday that Britons on benefits and fit to work would have to volunteer for 20 hours a week. At a press conference in central London, Mr Jenrick said many of the 6.6 million working-age people claiming joblessness benefits were “really taking advantage of their fellow citizens, their friends, their neighbours and community”. Mr Jenrick said: “If taxpayers must contribute, so must the able recipients of their support who can as well. I am therefore announcing that a Reform government will introduce a Welfare to Work scheme. “This will require long-term benefits claimants, who are fit to work, to provide 20 hours a week of work for their community, organised by their local ...
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The Left is finally paying the price for its idiotic belief in open borders

  Middle-class progressives love to welcome illegal immigrants into Britain, right up until they land on their own doorsteps Daily Telegraph 12/08/26 Let me set the scene. No 10 Downing Street. Or possibly No 10 North . “Good morning, Prime Minister. I have good news and bad news. Which would you like first?” “The good news, please.” “There are no more small boats.” “Wow! Fantastic! So what’s the bad news?” “They’ve all been replaced by absolutely bloody enormous boats.” Poor Andy Burnham . This week, his political honeymoon was brutally curtailed by a record-shattering 230 illegal immigrants crossing the Channel in a dinghy the size of a Viking longship. In fact, the dinghy was so huge that The Sun couldn’t fit a photo of it on its front page, and had to run it across its back page, as well. Advertisement Still, we’d better get used to it. Because, in their adorably insouciant manner, the French authorities say we can look forward to plenty more of these mega-dinghies cruising t...
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Reform councillor sues NHS for ‘political discrimination’

  Mental health nurse claims he was investigated after campaign video in which he appeared in his uniform Daily Telegraph 11/08/26 A Reform UK councillor is suing the NHS over claims he was discriminated against for his political beliefs. Daniel Matchett, who was elected to Lancashire county council last May, has launched legal proceedings against the health service after he was subjected to a disciplinary investigation for posing in a Reform UK campaign video on social media. Mr Matchett had worked in the NHS as a mental health nurse for more than a decade before standing as a Reform UK candidate in Whitworth & Bacup. However, he was investigated by his employer after appearing in the campaign video wearing an NHS uniform and mentioning his work as a mental health nurse. Mr Matchett was accused of breaching his NHS Trust’s social media policies by filming part of the video on his NHS Trust’s premises. The investigation was launched one day after the video was posted in July 2...
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Burnham: Middle-class areas must take more asylum seekers

  PM says he will work to ensure ‘poorest communities’ do not have lion’s share of migrant accommodation Daily Telegraph 11/08/26 Andy Burnham has said middle-class families should “play their part” by accepting asylum seeker accommodation near their homes. The Prime Minister said he would work to ensure that the “poorest communities” did not have to take the lion’s share of accommodation for asylum seekers. Mr Burnham has campaigned against housing asylum seekers in houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) and hotels in working-class areas, including his Makerfield constituency. He refused to commit to stopping small boat Channel crossings by the next election. Mr Burnham told GB News: “I do have to say that we cannot have a situation where it’s only the poorest communities in the country that receive all of the dispersal of refugees and asylum seekers. Advertisement “I do believe all parts of the country need to work... to play their part. It’s a challenging issue. We’re working a...
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The British people are being treated like mugs on illegal immigration

  Will Burnham break with the past and actually listen to voters? Daily Telegraph 10/08/26 It has been a long time since polls expressing increased hostility by British voters towards immigration were a surprise to anyone. Over the weekend a new survey found that the proportion of voters who now believe that immigration has been “mostly bad” for Britain has leaped 10 points in the last decade, from 33 to 43 per cent. The change among those who voted Remain in 2016 has been the most dramatic: among this group, the number who said migration had been bad had risen from 12 to 22 per cent. None of this is surprising, and is in line with other surveys that have found immigration and asylum creeping towards the top of voters’ political priorities.. Today a record 230 people arrived by a single “mega-dinghy ” on Britain’s southern coast, having managed to escape the hellscape of northern France, making a mockery of Britain’s claim to secure borders. All of this is a threat to whichever pa...
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