Cap on immigration

Are there really towns that have been swamped by European migrants? Where are the hotspots? Is there pressure on jobs and housing?

As anxious MPs consider bad-mouthing Britain to put off low-skilled Romanian and Bulgarian workers from moving to the UK, FactCheck examines the truth behind the scaremongering.

Is UKIP’s Nigel Farage right about immigrants snapping up all the social housing? “All you have to do now if you come from Eastern Europe, all you have to do is to get a national insurance number – which you can get easily within a fortnight – and then you qualify automatically for social housing,” he said. FactCheck investigates.

Stemming the flood of migration with the UK’s first “immigration cap” was a central pledge in the Conservative Party’s manifesto. They promised to cut immigration from hundreds of thousands, to tens of thousands by the next parliament. How are they doing? FactCheck investigates.

It’s the issue that’s threatening to split the Coalition down the middle. But does David Cameron have a hope of hitting his targets on immigration?

The Office for Budget Responsibility report yesterday raised more questions about how effective the cap on skilled and highly skilled workers, announced by the government last week, will actually be.

FactCheck analyses the Government’s decision to exclude “intra-company transfers” from its annual migration cap.

Channel 4 News FactCheck analyses the London Mayor Boris Johnson’s claim that the government’s cap on immigration from outside the EU is putting the economic recovery at risk

Today Theresa May announced a temporary limit on the number of skilled migrants who can enter the UK from outside the EU, to avoid a “rush” before a permanent cap is set next year. But how much of an impact can this have when Britain is part of the EU, where workers flow freely between most countries?

The Tories and the Lib Dems released their coalition policies today. FactCheck looked at how these compared to the claims both made before the election.