Chris Mason: Why Labour aims to buck 25-year trend of rising legal migration
Summary
The UK government wants to reduce the number of people moving to the UK legally. They plan to do this by changing immigration rules, focusing on bringing in more skilled workers and limiting less skilled workers.Key Facts
- For the past 30 years, more people have moved to the UK than left, leading to high net migration.
- Net migration has been over 100,000 people each year from 1998 to 2020.
- The UK ended free movement with EU countries after Brexit and created a new immigration system in 2021.
- The new system introduced changes to work visas, described as a points-based system.
- In 2023, net migration was 906,000, but it decreased to 728,000 in 2024.
- The UK government plans to reduce lower-skilled immigration by 50,000 people quickly.
- The government aims to emphasize high-skilled immigrants by allowing them to secure permanent residence faster.
- Future immigration policies will likely be part of an upcoming immigration bill.
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