Immigration: How British Politics Failed
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- Episode
- Episode Two
- Broadcast Info
- 2024 (59 mins)
- Description
- This two-part series uncovers who and what made immigration a burning political issue for New Labour and the Conservatives, and reveals the pressures and broken promises that have pushed successive governments into crisis. Prime Ministers, Home Secretaries and government insiders all talk openly about the challenges they faced and decisions they made. Media figures and migrant activists explain how these choices transformed the landscape of our national life. Immigration controversies contributed to the downfall of Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Rishi Sunak, and created turmoil for Tony Blair, Theresa May and Boris Johnson. But how did this issue, considered by many unsayable since the days of Enoch Powell, gain such prominence in our national poilitics? The UK’s exit from the EU and the establishment of the hostile environment were supposed to bring down figures and sucessive governments have made pledges change the system and reduce the number, but none have proved successful and migration rates remain stubbonly high and continue to grow.
- Genre
- Social Science; Politics
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Immigration: How British Politics Failed". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/251422 (Accessed 19 Apr 2025)