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Immigration and borders

Every candidate's published position on this one topic, side by side, in ballot-paper order.

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Anyone in the household is on a UK visa, or seeking asylum

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1John Joseph Baldwinthe Borough first Independents

No published position found.

2Joanna KorczakLiberal Democrat

No published position found.

3William Albert SennettReform UK

No published position found.

4Nigel William SmithLabour Party

No published position found.

5Clare Stuart-AdamsThe Conservative Party Candidate

No published position found.

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Go deeper on immigration and borders: independent sources

None of these is affiliated with a party. Where a source campaigns for a position, the label says so. Links open the original site.

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 (as enacted) — legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives). The law as enacted.
Commons Library: migration statistics briefing — House of Commons Library. Parliamentary research service, impartial by statute.
Home Office immigration statistics — Home Office. Official statistics.
Migration Observatory, University of Oxford — Migration Observatory. University research centre; independent and non-partisan.
ONS: long-term international migration — Office for National Statistics. Official statistics.

Cross-cutting: polling, fact-checking, parliamentary research

Commons Library: constituency data dashboards — House of Commons Library. Parliamentary research service, impartial by statute.
electionleaflets.org: archive of election leaflets, searchable by area — Democracy Club. Civic-technology archive; leaflets are the parties' own material.
Electoral Commission: political finance register (donations, loans, spending) — Electoral Commission. Official register.
Full Fact — Full Fact. Independent fact-checking charity.
House of Commons Library research briefings — House of Commons Library. Parliamentary research service, impartial by statute.
Institute for Government — Institute for Government. Independent think tank on how government works.
Ipsos Issues Index: what the public says matters most — Ipsos. Polling company (monthly, unprompted survey).
LG Inform: council performance and finance data — Local Government Association. Sector body for councils.
Local Elections Archive Project: every council result since 2002 — Andrew Teale. Independent archive from Returning Officers' data, CC BY-SA.
mySociety Local Intelligence Hub: data by constituency — mySociety. Civic-technology charity; non-partisan.
UK Parliament: Commons votes (every division, how each MP voted) — UK Parliament. Official record, Open Parliament Licence.
UK Parliament: petitions, with signatures by constituency — UK Parliament. Official record.