Professor, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool
Dr Alex Balch is a Professor at the Department of Politics, University of Liverpool. His research interests include immigration politics and policies on forced labour and human trafficking.
How did 'taking back control' of borders become record-high net migration?
May 29, 2023 05:07 am UTC| Politics
Prime minister Rishi Sunak has described the UKs new immigration figures, showing over 600,000 net migration for the year ending December 2022, as too high. While revised estimates from the Office for National Statistics...
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