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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Hughes

Starmer signals visa crackdown to tackle ‘deteriorating’ English Channel crisis

French police teargassed migrants desperately trying to reach the UK as Sir Keir Starmer threatened a visa crackdown to help tackle the “deteriorating” situation.

The Prime Minister signalled that countries which did not do enough to tackle the irregular migration crisis, for example by taking back failed asylum seekers, could face repercussions in the numbers of visas issued to their citizens.

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