Care Starmer reveals immigration restrictions

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UK Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer has announced a campaign to honor the Berkter promise recently to “restore control”, warning that Britain had risked a “island of strangers.”

In the comprehensive reforms of the British immigration system, immigrants to the United Kingdom will need to spend a decade in the country before applying for stability unless they can show a “real and permanent contribution to the economy and society.”

The proposal to end the automatic settlement after five years is part of the planned restrictions on legal immigration, which will also restrict the ability of employers to employ workers abroad for low skills roles.

Starmer told a press conference on Monday that Britain had witnessed a “one -country experience in open borders” under the last conservative government, adding: “This is not control, this is chaos.”

The Prime Minister said that the proposed changes, which the conservatives described as very shy, will end “a malicious chapter of our policies, our economy and our country” and focuses on training and employing UK workers.

Starmer refused to set a goal on the discounts in the migration he was hoping to achieve – and he refused to propose a maximum annual extent of the Conservative Party – but he said: “I promised that he would decrease significantly.”

The net immigration reached 906,000 in the year until June 2023 under the last government of the Conservative Party, but it started to fall after the administration of former Prime Minister Rishi Sonak took the family and affiliated visas.

Starmer’s policies and difficult rhetoric came in the month in which Nigel Farraj’s reform has recorded great successes in the local English elections and opened great progress in national opinion polls.

Under pressure from reform and conservatives to go further, the Prime Minister added that if he needed to take additional steps to reduce immigration, he was ready to do so. He said: “On the occasion of my words, we will rise.”

It has got rid of the suggestions that the campaign against immigration would undermine the slow growth rate of Britain, leaving employers with a lack of employment and care homes who struggle to find employees.

He said: “The theory that the high numbers of migration necessarily have been tested in the past four years,” saying that immigration has declined, but the economy has stagnated.

This claim is likely to be disputed by economists and employers, but Starmer insisted: “This link does not keep this guide.”

Evit Cooper, Minister of the Interior, said on Sunday that employment abroad for care workers will end within months as a result of the changes, which will be fully appointed in a white paper on Monday morning.

Other changes will reduce skilled workers’ visas to jobs at the postgraduate level, while temporarily reaches employers to visas for less skilled roles as there is a shortage of employees and their plans to train and recruit workers in the United Kingdom.

Cooper said that the changes in the low -skilled work visas will lead to a reduction in expatriates by 50,000 a year.