Brexit was in large part driven by an anti-immigration backlash, but exactly what kind of immigration was in the firing line? Not just the migrants who have been in our headlines for the last year ...

Pro-refugee activists rally with placards outside the French Embassy in central London on June 18. Fears over immigration were a key driver in the vote for the U.K. to leave the EU. Pro-refugee ...

A former British minister’s apparent about-face on the U.K.’s continued membership in the European Union illustrates the central role immigration is playing both sides of the “Brexit” debate.

Britain always had immigration, of course. But it was only in the 1990s that net inward immigration suddenly leapt from tens of thousands per year to more than 200,000 per year, according to the ONS.

On Thursday night, the votes poured in: After months of debate, the United Kingdom officially voted to leave the European Union in a referendum nicknamed "Brexit.". Shortly after the results were ...

Nigel Farage, who led the pro-Brexit U.K. Independence Party, unveiled a poster featuring Syrian and other asylum seekers marching through East European fields next to the slogan “Breaking point.” ...

Add to that mix an immigration and refugee crisis tied to Syria's civil war, which has flooded European countries, especially, with scores of migrants looking for jobs, social-services protections ...

The results of the Brexit referendum are in, and it is chaos. The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union. Prime Minister David Cameron is stepping down. The Dow Jones has fallen 611 points ...

If Brexit was a mistake, there are more than 10 people who made it, notes John Rentoul – but these clamorous voices led the charge to disaster Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent ...

“We’ve made a spectacle of ourselves squabbling over Brexit for years. We’ve let down vulnerable communities, whose needs have been neglected because the government was paralyzed by Brexit ...

Yes, the Brexit is about immigration. But it's not what you're thinking. ... the flow of refugees moving out of Syria and the Middle East and crossing in boats and trucks to Europe.

The image on Farage’s poster was one of Syrian and other refugees and migrants walking through the heart of the European ... It’s unclear if Brexit would actually reduce immigration to the U ...