Keir Starmer has given a glimpse of what immigration policy could look like under a Labour government. Speaking to the Confederation for British Industry, the party leader’s key message was about reducing the UK’s dependency on migrant labour.
Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage, known for his headline-making commentary, has claimed that Labour is now to the right of Conservatives on immigration. In terms of broad rhetoric, Starmer and the current government aren’t dissimilar on the basic point of ending what they call Britain’s dependence on migrant labour.
This is also something former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn implicitly put forward in his 2019 party manifesto by vowing to ban overseas-only recruitment practices and regulate the labour market including “stopping the undercutting of wages”.
