A senior UNISON boss has hit out at Labour’s upcoming Immigration White Paper, accusing the party of using “hostile language” that is putting off overseas workers from coming to the UK. Ahead of the reveal of the immigration plan today, Sir Keir Starmer outlined the government’s aims to close loopholes and tighten the immigration system. In a speech at Downing Street, the Prime Minister said Labour would “take back control of our borders” and move beyond a “squalid chapter” for politics and the economy.
However, Christina McAnea, general secretary of the public sector union UNISON, condemned the White Paper before it was even released, saying that the public sector’s reliance on immigrant workers makes the new proposals concerning, reported the Express.
