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I do want to get it down by the end of this Parliament significantly.
However, he refused to guarantee that net migration will fall every year from now, saying If we do need to take further steps... then mark my words we will.
Sir Keir underlined his determination that the changes will mean 'migration numbers fall' but added There's no target, no number that can be measured against,
he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme For years we have had a system that encourages businesses to bring in lower-paid workers, rather than invest in our young people,
The system for returning foreign criminals has been far too weak for too long,
You can’t strike those deals with other countries to work more closely together on law enforcement, to smash the gangs and to work on returns agreements – which is what we want to do – if, in the next breath, you’ll say you don’t believe in international law
Going down the failed route is not a sensible way for me
Sir Keir said, claiming he will take a We inherited a failed immigration system where the previous government replaced free movement with a free market experiment,
British interior minister Yvette Cooper said in a statement I don't think there is a case for rejoining the EU, I've said that before, I think on your (Andrew Marr) programme.
I don't think there is an argument for reopening those aspects of the treaty.
Appearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr show he said Today this Labour government is shutting down the lab. The experiment is over. We are taking back control of our borders,
he said, adopting the slogan used by pro-Brexit campaigners ahead of Britain’s referendum on leaving the European Union in 2016. Make no mistake, this plan means migration will fall, that’s a promise,
Mr. Starmer said from Downing Street, We will deliver what you’ve asked for time and again, and we will take back control of our borders.”
Echoing the slogan used by Brexit campaigners during the 2016 EU referendum, Starmer said We’ve had the highest net migration when the last government lost control, to nearly 1 million, and stagnant growth. And so that link doesn’t hold on that evidence,
We should be choosing who we want, higher skills, the high talent routes into our country. And it must be fair,
When people come to our country they should also commit to integration, learning our language - and we should distinguish between those that do and those that don’t,
We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.”
In 2023, it reached nearly 1 million, which is about the population of Birmingham, our second largest city. That’s not control – it’s chaos.”
You know that the countries that want to grow or in a global race for top talent, your number one priority is growth how hasn't this shot yourself in the foot by insisting that those who want to be citizens now have to live here twice as long as those who want to be American citizens?"
While discussing what Labour's new White Paper will mean, the leader of the party was asked by Robert Peston from ITV It's (...) a white paper that deals with skills and training, and one of the reasons that we've had stagnant growth... is because we have underinvested chronically in skills and growth,
