Skilled visa rules, deportations and higher fees: what’s in the immigration white paper

Keir Starmer castigated what he called ‘a one-nation experiment in open borders’ under the Conservatives, in his foreword to the white paper. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

The Home Ofice has released its much-trailed policy paper on immigration, which Keir Starmer has promised will lead to the numbers of people arriving in the UK falling “significantly” by the end of this parliament. Here is what it sets out and the measures the government is taking.

Net migration will fall