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The newly elected prime minister said he will target sectors over-reliant on immigration to reform the points-based system. Employers who refuse to comply will be banned from hiring overseas labour. Starmer also hinted at more returns of foreign nationals whose asylum claims had failed.
The UK’s prime minister is determined to change the country’s immigration policies. Citing revised figures that put net migration to the UK at a record high of 906,000 in the year to June 2023, Keir Starmer slammed the previous administration.
While slamming the previous government for the wrong immigration policy, the Prime Minister said it had happened by design, not accident. Policies were reformed deliberately to liberalise immigration. Brexit was used for that purpose to turn Britain into a one-nation experiment in open borders, he added.
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Most people who entered the UK between 2021 and 2023 did so to plug gaps in the British workforce. The newly elected prime minister said he will target sectors over-reliant on immigration to reform the points-based system. Employers who refuse to comply will be banned from hiring overseas labour. Starmer also hinted at more returns of foreign nationals whose asylum claims had failed.
