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the optimum population trust blog (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
The Government should hold an inquiry into the number of people the UK can support who are able to enjoy a good quality of life without damaging the environment, the Optimum Population Trust says today. In a letter to Phil Woolas, the recently appointed immigration minister, OPT says overpopulation puts Britain’s security at risk [...]
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the optimum population trust blog (Free subscription) | 23/12/2008
The balance of those settling here over those leaving must be cut to just 50,000 a year if the population is not to pass the landmark total. But that would require an enormous reduction from the current net level of 237,000 a year and makes a mockery of immigration minister Phil Woolas’ pledge to [...]
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Exposing Islam. (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Britain's Home Office says asylum seekers who say they are from Afghanistan will undergo tough interviews to check whether their claims are genuine. Officials estimate that 250 applicants per year fraudulently claim to be from Afghanistan. Immigration minister Phil Woolas says border controls are being tightened, and asylum seekers who say they're from Afghanistan will be tested on local dialects,...
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News to Cromley (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Shiraz Socialist has an article up on Phil Woolas . He has made some remarkably anti-immigrant points and seems to fail to understand the need for an immigration appeals process to ensure that people get a fair hearing and that official errors can be corrected. technorati tags: political news | news | world news More at: News 2 Cromley
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Immigrants will have to earn the right to claim benefits under proposals put forward by the UK Government, it was reported yesterday. Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said newcomers to the UK would have to prove they were here to work.
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Opposition parties say Phil Woolas, the immigration minister, is overselling minor changes to citizenship rules as a clampdown on immigrants playing the welfare system
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Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
At least someone is staying in the way of Europe's suicide. ( The Sun ) BRITAIN is to block EU laws which would open the floodgates to asylum-seekers. Immigration minister Phil Woolas last night declared he will use our veto to avoid being saddled by the plan. He told The Sun: “This would happen over my dead body.” EU chiefs want to ban the UK from holding asylum-seekers in detention centres. They...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
At some point before it disappears offline, I must urge you to go back to the BBC website and listen to Phil Woolas on the Today programme last Friday. He was invited on to rebut oblique claims by the Archbishop of York that he was immoral. "I don't accept that being tough is immoral," he said. So that settles that, then. By happy chance, though, this was the morning after Damian Green was arrested,...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, says that your handling of immigration has been immature and unmerciful. How do you feel about being criticised by such a respected moral leader?
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Christian Today (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
The GeneralSecretary of the Council of Zimbabwean Christian Leaders in the UK has accused the British government of irresponsible denial and said Minister Phil Woolas is devoid of empathy
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Bottled water. We all hate it now, don't we? Few products can rival its spectacular fall from grace. Government ministers rail against it ("morally unacceptable" in the pleasingly direct words of the environment minister, Phil Woolas) and shoppers no longer think it is fashionable.
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Vino's Political Blog (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Shiraz Socialist has an article up on Phil Woolas . He has made some remarkably anti-immigrant points and seems to fail to understand the need for an immigration appeals process to ensure that people get a fair hearing and that official errors can be corrected.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Phil Woolas rejects criticism from the Archbishop of York about recent comments on immigration and asylum.
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rhetorically speaking.. (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
There's something odd about this morning's Today programme interview between John Humphries and Phil Woolas, about the arrest of shadow Home Office minister Damian Green. Woolas repeatedly returns to the phrasing of the charges - "suspicion of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office" and "aiding and abetting, counselling or procuring misconduct in a public office." He seems to make careful...
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Benedict Brogan's political blog (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
I hope Gordon Brown heard Phil Woolas on Today digging a deep hole for Labour and the Government. He kept repeating that the "charge" was "conspiracy bla bla" until Ed Stourton gently pointed out that Damian Green has not in...
