Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | Photo credit: Jaimi Joy
Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised on Monday to significantly reduce net migration to Britain in the next four years, saying that greater control was needed to assert social cohesion and boost investment in the local workforce.
Immigration control was a key factor in the vote of Great Britain in 2016 to leave the European Union, however, net arrivals have quadrupled since it left the block, helping to increase the popularity of the United Kingdom Party of Nigel Farage anti-immigration reform.
Starmer said that nations depend on the rules established by the rights, responsibilities and obligations, and that without them Britain run the risk of “becoming an island of strangers.”
He said that his new migration migration plan Meean would fall abruptly at the end of this Parliament in 2029, although there is no large objectives.
“That is a promise, but I want to be very clear in this, if we need to take more steps, if we need to make more to freeze on houses and our public services, then my words, we will do it,” he told a press conference office.
Among the measures announced on Monday there was a movement to restrict qualified works to postgraduate applicants, prevent companies in the care sector from recruiting abroad and require companies to increase training for local workers.
Automatic settlement and citizenship for people who move to Britain will apply after 10 years, compared to five years, Althegh, highly qualified workers, such as nurses, doctors, engineers and experts in artificial intelligence, would be accelerated.
The government also said that it planned to raise English language requirements to include all adult dependents who will have to show a basic understanding of English. He said the change would help integration and reduce exploitation risks.
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Migration has long been a political problem in Britain, and critics argue that social cohesion can be damaged if the government does not build enough public houses or services to accommodate a larger population.
But many business sectors, including the adult care sector, argue that they cannot hire sufficient personnel at local level and employers in
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And other areas warn that difficult restrictions will damage their potential and affect general economic growth.
The number of migrants from the European Union to Britain fell sharply after Brexit, but the new visa rules, the greatest net number of foreign students and an increase in people who arrived from Ukraine and Hong Kong led to a general increase in recent years.
Net migration, the number of people who come to Britain except the number that left, reached a 906000 record in the year until June 2023, compared to 184000 who arrived in the same period of King 2019, when Britain was still in the EU.
Neil Carberry, Executive Director of the Confederation of Recruitment and Employment (REC), said that Starmer’s “main intervention” would cause alarm among the bosses.
When asked about Conerns of Business, Starmer said Great Britain had suffered a large growth when the immigration was high, and added “so that Link does not hold that evidence.” (Write by Kate Holton and William Schomberg editing by Giles Elgood and Gareth Jones)
Posted on May 12, 2025
