Neil O'Brien

@AylmerTH Yes, 19% (and rising)

The most common company names here show what "skilled worker" visas really are. Number of sponsoring firms including words: Curry / Kebab / Pizza / Chicken / Restaurant = 2,466 Shop / store / ma...

The FOI response can be found here: https://t.co/IS1Wc9WauH

Absolutely absurd. Also trashes stats on ho much migrants supposedly earn - a lot of this "employment" is totally fake visa milling.

If there's no evidence people left the country after their visa expired, the ONS just *assumes* they left. Via FOI I have found out that this assumption now accounts for a *fifth* of all non-EU emi...

@Madz_Grant They later escaped using a secret tunnel and treasure map (and the help of a plucky circus child) before unmasking the real villains.

On the day government debt interest payments hit a record high, Burnham is casually dropping a £10 billion new spending commitment before lunch. Our economy is gonna be toast.

That's one reason why you you are more likely than not to have more asylum seekers in your area: https://t.co/hK5ldvjDvW

Labour boast that by waving people through they have at least got the asylum backlog down. Somehow they fail to mention the *growing* asylum APPEALS backlog. The total is even higher than when they...

In April government spent a record amount on debt interest payments - 10 bn in ONE month Half the annual budget of the police in one month. We gotta stop borrowing. https://t.co/gmTspIH3aJ

https://t.co/hK5ldvjDvW

"Youth rehabilitation orders" for gang rape at knifepoint? They should be in jail.

Tax simplification latest: HMRC tax officials are going to have to decide what counts as a "children's meal". This will be like the Scotch Egg egg / tea cakes thing all over again. Love the fact t...

"4000 new teachers" he chirps, as the DFE's own website says there are 400 *fewer*. Tired government bleeding out in a pool of lies.

If people's visas expire and ONS has no record of them leaving the country, they simply *assume* that they have left - one reason to treat emigration and "net" migration figures with care

Bits of the Westminster village think that "just" 700,000 non-British people arriving in a single year is a great success and represents what voters want. That's a city the size of Leeds every year...

The government claims to be making amazing progress on asylum - but in reality it isn't stopping the flow. Instead it is just moving people from hotels to suburban streets - and other bits of the w...

While the use of hotels is down, the Home Office are just moving people into dispersal accommodation in normal suburban streets, and the numbers on the Afghan resettlement scheme continues to grow....

The dandelion effect - Labour are moving asylum seekers out of urban areas and into dispersal accommodation in the suburbs & shires. So most areas have seen an increase since Summer 24 - places...

Asylum claims are down a bit in Q1 of 2026. But this parliament is still on course to see the largest number of asylum claims ever. https://t.co/vmTAOYCw72