Boston and Brexit The Lincolnshire town of Boston that is surrounded by flat arable land had immigration levels increase by 460% between 2004-14 mainly from Eastern Europe.The town also had the highest UK leave vote of 76% in the 2016 referendum. A visit to the town for Helsingin Sanomat to find out how Boston is...
Swedes in London post Brexit This was an interesting assignment for the Swedish magazine Karriär that wanted to find out how Swedes & Brits working in Swedish businesses based in London felt about Brexit and how it will effect them and their thoughts about the future post Brexit. There are around 1,200 companies in the...
EU Referendum Clacton-on-Sea & Tooting London This was an interesting assignment for Swedish Dagens Nyheter about how England is geographically split in its opinions on the forth coming EU Referendum – with just 1 week to go. Firstly we travelled to Clacton-on-Sea the only constituency represented by a Ukip MP and where Euroscepticism is at...
EU Referendum This assignment for Swedish Dagens Nyheter was to take the opinions of Swedish Students living and studying in London and how a possible Brexit would effect them. It is estimated that 90,000 Swedes live, study & work in the UK. These images were taken in Whitechapel, East London and I needed to give...
Brexit UK immigration A story for Helsingin Sanomat about the opinions and thoughts of other citizens living & working in London and their thoughts about the up and coming EU Referendum and the implications of a possible Brexit. I was quite pleased with the result of the image, rather than meet and photograph individuals this...
Britain Stronger In Europe Campaign Britain Stronger In Europe the main organisation campaigning to keep Britain in the European Union took their new campaign bus to London and the Queen Mary University. Jo Johnson Conservative MP for Orpington & Chuka Umunna Labour MP for Streatham climbed out of the bus and met with young Britain...
Grassroots Out (GO) Campaign A visit for Helsingin Sanomat with their London correspondent Annamari Sipilä to a Grassroots Out (GO) campaign meeting held in Purfleet, Essex. Grassroots Out, or GO for short, is made up of politicians and supporters from across the political spectrum and is in favour of EU withdrawal in the forthcoming EU...
Eurosceptic map of London New YouGov research using the profiles data of over 80,000 British people on the YouGov panel reveals the most and least Eurosceptic areas of Britain. In the London boroughs the borough of Havering is the most eurosceptic (also in Britain) in contrast Lambeth is the top borough for Europhiles. We visited...
European or British? Just before Christmas we went to the aptly named tavern The Union to gauge what Brits feel about the EU and if they identify themselves as European or British. According to the latest Eurobarometer survey, as many as 64% of people in the UK deny that they feel in any way ‘European’. In...
Daniel Hannan On assignment for Helsingin Sanomat I went to Brighton with London correspondent Annamari Sipilä to meet up with Daniel Hannan, member of the European Parliament, representing South East England for the Conservative Party. We met up Daniel outside Brighton train station where he together with other colleagues were handing out leaflets on behalf...
