Voters’ attitude towards migration harden – as more asylum hotels targeted

Voter attitudes to migration toughen – as more asylum hotels targeted



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  1. Voters’ attitudes to immigration are hardening as Sir Keir Starmer faces mounting protests over asylum hotels, pollsters have warned.

    Several pollsters have warned of a shift in attitudes towards migration over the past few years, as successive governments have struggled to control illegal migration and the small boats crisis.

    Although legal immigration is falling dramatically, official figures this week [showed a record 111,084 people applied for asylum](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/labour-panic-asylum-figures-migrant-hotel-3873719?ico=in-line_link) on the Prime Minister’s watch, while the number of asylum seekers housed in hotels rose 8 per cent to 32,059 after a surge in crossings.

    Now pollsters at More In Common, YouGov and Savanta have told *The i Paper* that the situation is causing a shift in attitudes towards immigration, combined with [growing support for Nigel Farage’s Reform](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/reform-nine-point-lead-labour-boost-farage-no10-hopes-3838300?srsltid=AfmBOopNfYsF7WFgo19PRG1s8rx84jWyceKMI5izuzSYp4ekCjxJrDf7&ico=in-line_link).

    More in Common polling this week found that immigration (34 per cent) overtook the NHS (33 per cent) as the second most important issue facing the country, according to voters, with the cost of living first (63 per cent).

    The rise in those opposed to immigration has risen over the last three years rather than being a reaction to the protests outside migration hotels in the last year.

    It presents a major problem for the government struggling to contain migration as it becomes a dominant issue of voter concern.

  2. It definitely needed pollsters to confirm views on immigration had hardened.

  3. I hate the way they always try to spin it as “towards migration” and not the asylum system being used as a racket for both its economic users and private owners housing them.

    Here in Ireland it’s openly admitted that the large majority of asylum seekers both enter illegally and are economic migrants. Yet it’s treated as immoral to want an asylum system that fulfills its actual role while preventing fraud.

    The large majority of people have no problem with legal immigrants who are documented, go through the proper process and instead of being an economic drain for generations, are an immediate benefit.

  4. Don’t think you can really correlate this to the wider voting block. Most people aren’t pure fascist.

  6. Its not like immigration has been the leading issue on people’s minds alongside the economy the past 20 years…

  7. That’s a very polite way to say Britain is becoming more ignorant and racist.

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