Sky News made waves with a breaking news alert as presenter Trevor Phillips interviewed Home Secretary Yvette Cooper about Labour’s plans to tackle immigration. Cooper revealed that Labour plans to scrap visas for overseas care workers and non-graduate jobs, which would reduce low-skilled worker visas by 50,000 this year. She also confirmed that Labour wouldn’t be setting fixed targets for net migration, a shift from previous government policies.
However, just moments after the interview, Cooper was sharply criticised by Sky News guest and Guardian columnist Sonia Sodha. Sodha wasted no time delivering a stinging verdict on Labour’s proposals. She said, “The Home Secretary would like us to think the game-changing moment is tomorrow when the proposals drop, and we shall see. She sort of talked about some quite sensible things, but you think, ‘gosh, why haven’t governments been able to fix this over the last 20 or 30 years?'”, reported the Express.
