Immigration

Our latest Ipsos Issues Index for the Economist sows that concern about the economy has fallen as the economy continues on a path to recovery.

New research released at today's British Future immigration event, shows that two in five people (43%) still feel the issue of immigration has been discussed too little, 28% think it's discussed about the right amount and 26% that it has been discussed too much.

The February Economist/Ipsos issues index shows that, after January's dead heat between the economy and race/immigration concern about the latter has fallen by 7 percentage points to 34%, meaning that the economy is once again uncontested as the most important issue facing Britain today.

A new Ipsos poll reveals that six in ten Britons (62%) are dissatisfied with the way the government is dealing with immigration and asylum while just one in five (21%) are satisfied.

The first Economist/Ipsos issues index of 2014 shows that concern about race relations/immigration has increased to become, jointly with the economy, the most important issue facing Britain

A new international survey across 19 countries by Ipsos shows that Britain is by far the most concerned about immigration control.

Britons' priorities for government action in response to the lifting of restrictions on the movement of EU citizens from Romania and Bulgaria are to restrict the benefits they can claim and enforce the minimum wage, according to an Ipsos poll for British Future.

Ipsos's aggregated data from all 12 months of our Issues Index surveys, with the top 10 most important issues (along with EU/Europe) broken down by gender, by age, ethnicity, social class and by voting intention. This is based on a total of more than 10,000 interviews, aggregated from the 12 individual polls.

This is the smallest gap between the top and second issues facing Britain, and the lowest concern about the economy since 2008.