MIGRATION WATCH UK
The Home Secretary and others, including former Conservative leader Lord Hague, have suggested copying Danish asylum policies. But which of these policies, if any, have actually worked for Denmark?
From confiscating asylum seekers’ jewellery to negotiating offshore processing in Africa, Denmark has enacted some of Europe’s strictest measures – all in pursuit of a “zero asylum seekers” goal. Supporters credit these tactics for driving asylum claims down to a 40-year low. Yet a closer look at key initiatives shows their impact is far less dramatic than promised.
In 2022, Denmark deemed Damascus “safe” and revoked the residency permits of more than 1,200 Syrian refugees in hopes of prompting their return. But with no way to forcibly deport them, many of those Syrians ended up in limbo at Danish return centres. This tactic was meant to scare others off seeking asylum, yet Syrians still formed Denmark’s largest asylum applicant group the following year (around 500 new claims in 2023, a 25% increase over 2022). Overall, Denmark logged roughly 2,400 asylum requests in 2023 – far from the “zero asylum” vision.
And in 2021, Denmark passed a law to outsource asylum processing to Rwanda – hoping offshoring claims would deter migrants – but, like the UK, this Rwanda Plan never went much further than ink on paper. Amid legal challenges, the scheme was shelved in early 2023 without anyone being sent to Rwanda.
Other Danish measures seem designed more to send a message than to produce large-scale results. One example is the 2016 “jewellery law,” which lets police confiscate cash and valuables above a small threshold from asylum seekers to offset their upkeep. Politicians backing the law argued it would make Denmark unattractive to “economic” migrants. In reality, it has been invoked only 17 times in its first six years. Ultimately, the impact seems to have been minimal.
Like other political parties, when elections are looming, the Social Democrats under Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen have sought to play tough and headline-grabbing rhetoric and measures don’t appear to have deterred all asylum seekers although the number applying has clearly fallen from its peak of 21,000 in 2015 to 2,100 in 2023. So the measures have not by any means stopped asylum seekers from trying to enter Denmark.
Despite not yet knowing what exactly the Home Secretary is going to say, the left of her party has already called it out as racist. Moreover, if primary legislation is needed, it’s likely that any tough proposals will be watered down as any Bill makes its way through Parliament. And it will then be another year after it comes into force before we know what the impact has been, which we don’t believe will be great. Anyone expecting numbers crossing the Channel to reduce any time soon should not hold their breath
This week, we suggest you write to your MP about an interview published in the Daily Telegraph with a former Home Office caseworker, blowing the whistle on extremely poor practices with the asylum system. You can write anything you like, but we have provided a template below for your convenience. Simply copy the text, paste it into an email, delete and replace any red text, and send.
You can verify your local MP here: https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP.
“Dear [DELETE AND TYPE NAME OF MP HERE],
I am one of your constituents, living at [DELETE AND TYPE ADDRESS HERE].
The recent CORE statistics released by the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government show that over 11% of all new social housing tenancies are headed by non-British nationals.
When the social housing waiting list is so oversubscribed – estimated at 1.3 million people by the Big Issue, with some councils reportedly offering prospective tenants a 55 year wait for housing – it beggars belief that people foreign citizens are being prioritised for scarce social housing ahead of British citizens born here.
Would you please write to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Steve Reed MP, and request he considers directing local authorities to refrain from placing foreign nationals above British citizens on the social housing waiting list.
Kind regards,[DELETE AND TYPE YOUR NAME HERE]
If you receive a response from your MP and are comfortable sharing it, please forward it on to us – we are always interested!
Further bad weather, including storms coming up from Spain, have prevented crossings for most of this week after a particularly bad weekend.
James Johnson, co-founder of the polling firm JL Partners, has conducted a poll for GB News showing that a majority of all party supporters in the UK support deporting all illegal migrants
Exclusive new UK polling with @MartinDaubney @gbnews by @JLPartnersPolls
Two thirds (66%) of Brits back the deportation of ALL illegal migrants
Majorities of Reform, Tories, Labour and Lib Dem voters support the policy. Even more Greens do than not
2,000 UK adults, Nov 2025 pic.twitter.com/WMLyAPVldh
— James Johnson (@jamesjohnson252) November 11, 2025
Rory Geoghegan, founder of the Public Safety Foundation, reveals the Office for National Statistics is proposing to reduce the amount of data it published on crime – despite high public concern over the levels of criminality as a result of mass migration.
With so much public concern about public safety, immigration and integration, cutting back on crime statistics doesn’t seem particularly sensible.
The ONS has decided to “substantially narrow” their work, including “reviewing funding” and “broader work” on crime statistics.👇 pic.twitter.com/BiLfitw0Hd
— Rory Geoghegan (@rorygeo) November 13, 2025
Finally, journalist Charlie Peters has reported a pro-Iranian regime TV channel operating in London was able to hire from overseas through the Skilled Worker visa scheme for at least three years.
Our investigation has revealed:
– A pro-Iran TV station that has praised Hezbollah operates in London
– It holds an official broadcasting licence from Ofcom
– It was able to hire foreign workers on the Tier Two Skilled Worker visa scheme for at least three years https://t.co/HGxoCgeQGN
— Charlie Peters (@CDP1882) November 14, 2025
Independent journalist David Shipley has written for the Telegraph on the importance of the British prison estate weaning itself off cheap migrant labour:
Astonishingly, prisons have recruited over 1,000 officers from overseas in the past two years, with the vast majority of foreign hires coming from Nigeria. Indeed, according to Ministry of Justice data, 11.5 per cent of all officers hired in 2024 come from Nigeria, with Ghana a distant second on 2.1 per cent. It seems that very many Nigerians apply to work in the prison service, as they represented 29 per cent of all applicants last year.
To put this 1,000 foreign national staff in perspective, there were 22,702 frontline prison officers according to the last published statistics. Staff turnover is high. In the last year, while 2,453 frontline officers were hired, 2,823 left the prison service. This is why our jails are desperately hiring. They can’t hold on to staff. And in the last two years foreign nationals have become a significant source of new officers.
And Mario Laghos has written for the Critic on the importance of exclusion for maintaining a high-trust democracy:
Fairness can be read to mean both closed borders and open borders. It can mean retributive justice or rehabilitative justice. It can mean low taxes or high taxes. Tolerance can be understood to mean both free-speech absolutism and draconian hate speech laws. It can mean decriminalising female genital mutilation, or punishing its practitioners in the harshest of terms.
British values have no meaning — they are unmoored from British history, and don’t speak to the British story, which is one of war, innovation, colonisation, sea-faring and adventure, about which there is not much tolerant, fair or inclusive. But they do serve a purpose, and that is to hold people together in their difference. The credo is an attempt to redefine Britishness as the negation of itself. Being British is about being tolerant and inclusive of every other culture, except for your own.
SOURCE: Migration Watch UK newsletter
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