Nearly three-quarters of British adults have said they would vote against allowing men from countries where rape, child abuse and domestic violence are widespread to enter the United Kingdom.
The finding comes from polling by Whitestone Insight, commissioned by the London think tank the Women’s Policy Centre and published on August 25.
Some 73 per cent said they would vote against admitting men from such countries, where women are also not regarded as equal to men. That compared with 13 per cent who would vote in favour, a margin of close to six to one.
Opposition was firm rather than tentative. A total of 58 per cent said they would “definitely” vote against, more than four times the number backing entry in any form, while 14 per cent did not know.
The same survey found 66 per cent of Britons think immigration from countries where women have fewer legal or social rights than in the UK has contributed to the rise in reported sexual offences.
Of those, 40 per cent said it had done so “a great deal”. Just 16 per cent said such migration had had little or no effect.
The Women’s Policy Centre said the results reflected experience rather than hostility. “This is not prejudice, it is common sense,” it said in a statement accompanying the figures.
The think tank called on parties of all stripes to treat women’s safety as a first-order consideration in immigration policy, rather than a subject avoided for fear of causing offence.
The polling builds on the centre’s December 2025 report, Illegal Migration Puts Women at Risk. A YouGov survey commissioned for that study found 93 per cent of respondents supported deporting illegal migrants convicted of rape or other violent crimes.
The new figures land as the British Government pushes its Immigration and Asylum Bill through parliament. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said the legislation would narrow the use of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights in deportation cases.
They also follow the publication on August 19 of Home Office guidance telling asylum seekers that sex without consent is rape and that children under 16 cannot consent to sex.
That guidance drew criticism from Reform UK and from the Conservative front bench, both of which argued that deportation, rather than instruction, was the appropriate response.
Whitestone Insight surveyed 2,093 UK adults online on August 21-23, with the data weighted to be representative of all adults. The company is a member of the British Polling Council.
