Owen Paterson MP: Why UKIP is wrong about immigration

The key to controlling, and achieving a balanced immigration policy, is to repeal the Human Rights Act and remain within the EAA.

Alistair Burt MP: The strange silence of British politicians over Merkel’s confrontation of extremism

Why have our leaders not echoed her condemnation of it?

A winning Conservative migration strategy for the next election

The months before an election hold great temptation to make rash and unworkable promises that come back to haunt us. Let’s try something else.

Daniel Kawczynski MP: It’s time to stand up for the free movement of peoples within Europe

I’ve seen first hand the contribution that this generation of young Poles is making to Britain – just as an earlier one did during the Battle of Britain.

Garvan Walshe: May warned of the “Nasty Party”. Her new student immigration policy would make it the stupid one.

While the rest of the world is competing to attract the world’s brightest brains, it would seem that May wants us to deport the hardy souls we’re unable to deter.

Interview: Jacob Rees-Mogg – “I think the love-bombing of UKIP voters would be an intelligent strategy”

He contends that we have become “a classless society” – and will set out in his election address his demands for our EU renegotiation.

Labour advise their campaigners to dodge debating immigration

Targeting voters makes sense – but concealing policies is another matter.

Social democrats should blame social liberalism, not neo-liberalism, for their demise 

The weakening of the marriage-based nuclear family has torn our social fabric to shreds.

Lord Green: Why a points based system for immigration control is a bad idea

It has worked in Australia but in a totally different context.

Graeme Archer: Populism will eat ourselves: let’s not return to the Forbidden Planet

As Conservatives it’s our job to acknowledge our gut instinct but also mediate it with morality and pragmatism.

Why the Autumn Statement doesn’t matter

Osborne simply has no political room to do anything very much. The big decisions will come after the election – whoever is in office.

The full text of the Prime Minister’s speech on immigration

His proposals in his own words.

Immigration 1) Cameron’s speech – a struggle in a trap of his own devising

Yes, there is a plan for welfare restrictions. But no, there is nothing much on border control. Expectations have been raised that have thus not been met.

Immigration 2) Douglas Hansen-Luke: Deportation figures, health payments, housing refusals. Let’s list our immigration results.

There are two immediate, costless and politically smart things we should be doing right now.

Immigration 3) Philip Salter: Don’t worry about net migration – worry about the young entrepreneurs we are turning away

The UK is making the next generation of business success stories feel unwelcome here. It will cost us.