UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has promised the government's new immigration measures will mean net migration falls significantly over the next four years.
The Prime Minister unveiled plans to ban recruitment of care workers from overseas, tighten access to skilled worker visas and raise the costs to employers in an effort to curb near-record net migration.
He did not set a precise target, but the home office estimated the policies could lead to 100,000 drop in migration per year by 2029, based on analysis of just eight of the core policies where a quantitative assessment could be made.
The conservative leader in response said the changes are nowhere near the scale needed.
Successive governments have tried unsuccessfully to reduce net migration, which is the number of people coming into the UK minus the number leaving.
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