PM announces immigration system overhaul after net migration hit record high under Conservatives
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe Prime Minister has announced he will overhaul the country's immigration system after it was revealed net migration hit record numbers in 2023.
Sir Keir Starmer accused the previous government of running ‘a one-nation experiment in open borders’ at a press conference in Downing Street on Thursday (November 28).
It comes after revised figures estimated net migration hit a record 906,000 last year. Sir Keir Starmer told a Downing Street press conference that his Government would publish plans “imminently”, in the form of a white paper, to bring down the number of people entering the UK.
He also took aim at the previous government, saying the quadrupling of net migration since 2019 had been a deliberate policy of the Conservatives. READ MORE: Tragedy as missing woman, 82, found dead He said: “Failure on this scale isn’t just bad luck.
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