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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will on Monday unveil plans to tighten immigration rules, confronting an issue that has bedeviled successive governments and fueled the rise of a new anti-immigrant party that could threaten the country’s political establishment

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The government has a tricky balancing act when it comes to immigration. It has to serve the economy, address public disquiet and also maintain an asylum system, but Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper seem to have the right approach

Labour have been accused of pushing forward with “extreme” curbs on immigration which will be “utterly devastating” for several Scottish…

Home secretary Yvette Cooper to set out sweeping measures as Labour attempts to deal with growing threat from Nigel Farage and his Reform party

Ministers are due to publish their Immigration White Paper on Monday.

The Home Secretary said the system will change to ‘prevent it being used to recruit from abroad’

Yvette Cooper to announce proposals to reduce net migration in response to growing pressure from Reform UK

The Home Secretary has blamed a push for overseas recruitment for high net migration figures in recent years.

Exclusive: Foreign secretary David Lammy has revealed to The Independent his new push with international partners to tackle illegal migration as Yvette Cooper prepares to unveil her white paper on legal migration. Both come in the wake of a surge in popular support for Nigel Farage and Reform