Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s hardline immigration reforms will hit at least two million people, including around half a million children already in the UK and could make child poverty worse, a new analysis claims. Labour is under pressure to reduce migration as it finds itself lagging behind Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the polls. These plans are part of an effort to reverse the so-called “Boris wave” of non-EU migrants who entered Britain after former prime minister Boris Johnson relaxed post-Brexit visa rules and who would automatically be given ILR in the next few years without a change to the law. The Work Rights Centre charity, who carried out the study, urged Andy Burnham to drop th
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s hardline immigration reforms will hit at least two million people, including around half a million children already in the UK and could make child poverty worse, a new analysis claims. Labour is under pressure to reduce migration as it finds itself lagging behind Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the polls. These plans are part of an effort to reverse the so-called “Boris wave” of non-EU migrants who entered Britain after former prime minister Boris Johnson relaxed post-Brexit visa rules and who would automatically be given ILR in the next few years without a change to the law. The Work Rights Centre charity, who carried out the study, urged Andy Burnham to drop the “earned settlement” plan for people in the UK, if he becomes prime minister. You can read Arj Singh's full article on The i Paper website. #ukpolitics #migration ♬ original sound - The i Paper - The i Paper
