The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, promised on Monday “finally recovering control” of the borders of Great Britain, since his government presented policies designed to reduce legal immigration and defend the growing support for hard law.
Labor leader Starmer announced that he was finishing a “open border experiment” that saw net migration to almost a million people under the previous conservative government, which lost the general elections of last year.
The Government’s White Immigration Papel Policy document includes plans to reduce the foreigner [care workers][2] and increase from five to 10 years the time that people will have to live in the United Kingdom before qualifying for settlement and citizenship.
The English language rules will also be strengthened, with all the adult dependents necessary to demonstrate a basic understanding, while the time that students can remain in the United Kingdom after completing their studies will be reduced.
Starmer said the policies “would finally regain control of our borders,” recalling the Pro-Brexit slogan used in the apogee of the campaign to leave the European Union in 2016.
The work promised in its general electoral manifesto last year to significantly reduce net migration, which stood at 728,000 in the 12 months of June.
He had reached its maximum point in 906,000 in 2023 after averaging 200,000 for most of the 2010.
Starmer, a former human rights lawyer who voted for the United Kingdom to remain part of the EU, is under renewed pressure to address immigration after the profits of the anti-immigration reform party in recent local elections.
The Nigel Farage party of Arch-Eurosptice won more than 670 seats of the local council, as well as its first two mayor positions. It is also high in national surveys, while the work is fighting.
However, Starmer’s tactics on the right on immigration runs the risk of alienating the great basis of liberal work supporters, with the liberal democrats and the greens collecting votes to the left.
The prime minister said that migrants “make a massive contribution” to Great Britain, but alleged that the country runs the risk of becoming an “island of strangers” without further controls.
He added that he wanted net migration “significantly” in the next elections, probably in 2029, but refused to say how much.
“Each area of the immigration system, including work, family and study, will harden to have more control,” journalists told journalists at a Downing Street press conference.
‘Higher standards’
The White Paper also includes new powers to deport foreigners who commit crimes in the country.
Currently, the government is only informed of foreign citizens who receive prison sentences.
According to the new agreements, all foreign citizens convicted of crimes will be marked to the government.
“The system for foreign criminals who return has been too weak for too long,” Interior Minister Yvette Cooper said Sunday.
“We need much higher standards.” The document also includes new visa controls that require foreign specialized workers to have a university degree to ensure work in the United Kingdom.
And to reduce migration specialized in low migration, Cooper has said that its objective is to reduce 50,000 lower workers visas this year.
In plans to double the time before migrants can make settlement or citizenship requests, qualified high people “who play by the rules and contribute to the economy” could be accelerated, according to Downing Street.
Starmer said Great Britain “has had a system that encourages companies to attract workers with less payment, instead of investing in our young people.”
Care England, a beneficial organization that represents the adult care sector, said the decision to close social care visas to new requests from abroad was an “overwhelming blow for an already fragile sector.”
“International recruitment was not a silver bullet, but it was a line of life.
Take it now, without warning, without funds and no alternative is not just myopic, it is cruel, “said executive president Martin Green.
The Starmer is also under pressure to stop the flow of migrants crossing the channel from France to England on flimatic gum dinghies.
More than 36,800 made the trip last year, according to figures from the British government, with several dozens of dying.
The separate legislation to address irregular immigration, called Border Security Law, asylum and immigration, is going through Parliament.
