Under pressure from the success of Reform, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced new measures designed to reduce net migration. The government will consider deporting any foreign criminals, and introduce new restrictions on visas for low-skilled jobs, including scrapping the care worker visa. On the BBC this morning, Laura Kuenssberg asked the home secretary how care homes would recruit enough staff. Cooper said that care companies should recruit from a ‘pool of people’ who are already here on care worker visas, but did not get jobs. The home secretary resisted giving a target number for immigration, but did say she expected these new measures to ‘lead to a reduction of up to 50,000 fewer lower-skilled visas over the course of the next year.’
Chris Philp: ‘For Keir Starmer to claim [US trade deal] is some kind of huge success is absurd’
On Sky News, Trevor Phillips asked Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp why Kemi Badenoch was ‘grumbling’ about the new US trade deal when she had failed to reach any agreement with the White House.
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