1987 - 1995

1987 Immigration (Carriers Liability) Act levied fines of £1000 on airlines and shipping companies carrying passengers without correct documents. European Community Interior Ministers agreed a common list of 50 countries whose nationals require a pre-entry visa.

May 1987 Three black MPs, Diane Abbott, Bernie Grant and Paul Boateng, and one Asian MP, Keith Vaz, elected.

1988 Immigration Act restricted right to appeal against deportation and removed rights of those settled in UK since 1973 to be joined by dependants. The Social Security Act gave the Department of Health and Social Services the right to check the immigration status of any claimant. Additonal visa requirements passed for visitors from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ghana and Nigeria.

1989 Additonal visa requirements passed for Turkish nationals.

1990 John Taylor was selected as Conservative candidate for Cheltenham before being suffering racist comments and a vote of no confidence from within his own local party. Taylor lost the election. Additonal Visa requirements passed for Somali nationals.

1991 Fines on airlines and shipping companies introduced in Carriers' Liability Act of 1987 raised from £1000 to £2000.

1992 Visitors refused entry to the UK are denied right to appeal in the Asylum and Immigration Appeal Act. John Taylor loses a safe Conservative seat in Cheltenham to the sound of cheers from his own party members. Six black MPs elected in the general election.

1993 Stephen Lawrence stabbed to death by white youths as he waits at a bus stop in Eltham, South London. Joy Gardner, an illegal immigrant in Britain since 1987, died when police overpowered her, handcuffed and gagged her with 13 feet of sticky tape. Police claimed these were necessary actions to deport Gardner.

December 1996 Sixty percent of passengers on a Christmas Charter flight from Jamaica detained at Gatwick and denied entry to UK.

1995 Asian youth in Manningham district of Bradfor riot for two nights.