Starmer presents migration sidewalks

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The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer, has announced a migration repression to “take control of our borders”, more than five years after the Brexit came into force.

In broad reforms in the Britain Immigration System, Migrants in the United Kingdom will have to spend a decade in the country before requesting to establish -unless they can show “a real and lasting contribution to the economy and society”.

The proposal to end the automatic settlement after five years is part of the sidewalks planned in legal migration, which will also greatly restrict the capacity of businessmen to hire workers abroad for low functions.

Starmer said that Britain had seen a “nation experiment on open borders” under the last conservative government, saying on Monday a Downing Street press conference: “This is not control, this is chaos.”

The Prime Minister said that his proposed changes, described by the Tories as timid mass, would end a “scrubbing chapter” for the society and economy of Britain, and would emphasize the training and hiring of workers in the United Kingdom.

Yvette Cooper, Secretary of the Interior, said on Sunday that the hiring of attendees abroad would end in a few months as a result of the changes, which will be completely in a white book at 9.30 am on Monday.

Other changes will limit the visas of skilled workers at jobs at the postgraduate level, with employers only contributed to temporary visas for lower functions where there are shortages of staff and plans to train and recruit UK workers.

Cooper said that the changes in low working visas would be reduced to 50,000 a year and that their broader plans would lead to a “substantial reduction” in net migration, but they do not set a numerical goal.

Net migration reached an peak of 906,000 a year until June 2023 under the last conservative government, but began to fall after the administration of former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was reduced to the family and dependent visas.

This is a development story