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UK tightens migration rules to combat surge in support for populists

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Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has announced a series of measures to toughen the country's migration system. The changes aim to make it more difficult for migrants to obtain visas to the UK, with immigrants potentially facing a wait of up to 10 years before they can apply for British citizenship. The government's justification for these measures is to maintain social cohesion and drive investment in the local workforce.

  1. GB
    Yvette Cooper
    British Home Office
    1. The system for returning foreign criminals has been far too weak for too long.
  2. GB
    Keir Starmer
    Labour Party
    1. The damage [immigration] has done to our country is incalculable.
    2. For years we have had a system that encourages businesses to bring in lower-paid workers, rather than invest in our young people.
    3. This plan means migration will fall – that's a promise.
    4. Every area of the immigration system, including work, family and study, will be tightened up so we have more control.
    5. When people come to our country, they should also commit to integration and to learning our language.
  3. GB
    Steve Smith
    Care4Calais
    1. Shameful language like this will only inflame the fire of the far-right and risks further race riots that endanger survivors of horrors such as war, torture and modern slavery.
  4. GB
    Madeleine Sumption
    University of Oxford
    1. On the other hand, the benefit for the government is that they bring in a lot more revenue, and that money gets redistributed across the health service, across the skills system — though that's not the justification the government is using.
    2. When they saw how big the numbers were, they started to roll back some of those liberalizations and made some restrictions.
    3. Having temporary status is obviously not very good for migrants themselves. Because the U.K. immigration system is actually very expensive for people on temporary visas.
    4. After Brexit, a new immigration system came in under the previous [Conservative] government that was surprisingly liberal, and there was a big and unexpected increase in migration to the U.K..

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sources

  1. 1.The Korea Herald
  2. 2.NPR
  3. 3.CNN
  4. 4.Le Monde
  5. 5.Agence France-Presse
  6. 6.Daily Mirror
  7. 7.National Public Radio
  8. 8.Reuters
  9. 9.Sunday Telegraph

perspectives

  1. 1.British Foreign Policy
  2. 2.Immigration to Europe
  3. 3.Rise of Far-Right in Europe
  4. 4.British Politics
  5. 5.Immigration
  6. 6.Italian Foreign Policy
  7. 7.UK under Rishi Sunak
  8. 8.BREXIT
  9. 9.Immigration to the UK
  10. 10.Italy under Georgia Meloni
  11. 11.UK under Keir Starmer
  12. 12.France-UK Relations

countries

  1. 1.FranceFR
  2. 2.United KingdomGB
  3. 3.IndiaIN
  4. 4.RwandaRW
  5. 5.United StatesUS

organizations

  1. 1.Conservative Party
  2. 2.Labour Party
  3. 3.European Union
  4. 4.Reform UK
  5. 5.10 Downing StreetGB
  6. 6.Care4Calais
  7. 7.Migration Observatory
  8. 8.Missing Migrants Project
  9. 9.University of Oxford

persons

  1. 1.Keir StarmerGB
  2. 2.Nigel FarageGB
  3. 3.Josephine Starmer
  4. 4.Fatima Al-Kassab
  5. 5.Ian Vogler
  6. 6.Lauren Frayer
  7. 7.Madeleine SumptionGB
  8. 8.Nadia Whittome
  9. 9.Rishi SunakGB
  10. 10.Steve SmithGB
  11. 11.Yvette CooperGB
  12. 12.Zarah SultanaGB

technicals

  1. 1.English Channel