On Monday Prime Minister Keir Starmer made his big immigration speech in which he warned that without tightening rules the UK risked becoming an ‘island of strangers’. Now a new YouGov poll has revealed that 50 per cent of Brits see immigration as the top issue facing Britain – the highest level since Brexit. The pressure is on…
Today’s survey, collected between 10-12 May, shows that half of UK adults view Britain’s borders as the most important issue facing the country – up two percentage points on the previous week. Second in line is the economy, which just under one in two adults view as the most pressing problem, and in third place is health – with just over a third of Brits concerned about the NHS. Lower down on the list are issues such as welfare, tax and Europe – which only around one in ten people see as being top priorities. How very interesting…
The poll comes a week after Nigel Farage’s party saw victories across the country in the local and mayoral elections – with Reform UK also picking up another MP in the extremely close Runcorn and Helsby by-election. Farage’s focus on Britain’s borders has not only got voters concentrating on them, Sir Keir himself is going even harder on immigration reforms – in an attempt to ‘out-Reform Reform’, as one disgruntled Labour backbencher told Mr S after the speech. Starmer and his Home Secretary Yvette Cooper have pledged to cut the number of low-skilled worker visas issued to fewer than 50,000 and claim their measures will also get more Brits into work. Well, as they say, the proof is in the pudding…
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