A positive contribution: An honest and detailed plan to improve our immigration system

Edited by William Prescott and Joe Harrison

May 2025

This essay collection is an attempt to offer a popular and effective set of policies to improve our immigration system, rooted in centre-right principles: control, contribution and cohesion. That is, national governments should have the power to determine the number and type of migrants who are admitted. And migrants should only be admitted and allowed to stay if they successfully contribute to and integrate into our country.

Contributors include: The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP (former Deputy Foreign Secretary), David Simmonds MP (Shadow Minister for Housing, Communities and Local Government), Madeleine Sumption (Director, Migration Observatory), Tim Loughton (former Minister for Children and Families), and more.

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