Starmer undertakes to cut immigration in the United Kingdom
On Monday, the British government has promised to strengthen the rules of migration and make more difficult for new arrivals to remain permanently in the country, as a sign of the growing political pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to cut the number of immigration.According to the plans, the visas for some lower skilled workers would be reduced, the linguistic requirements for immigrants have grown and the period of time necessary for most of the new arrivals to qualify for citizenship or the right to remain permanently doubled, from five years to 10.In a Downing Street speech, Mr. Starmer, who guides the government laburist party, accused his predecessors of allowing immigration of exhausting control and effectively creating an experiment with open borders."Today this Labor governme...