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Sir Keir Starmer will promise to ‘tighten up’ all elements of the system.

The Prime Minister said without stricter controls on immigration "we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together"

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

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No 10 says overhaul will combine control and compassion to rebuild public trust – but the politics are fraught

Keir Starmer says system ‘will be tightened up’ in all areas, following sharp rise in support for Reform UK in elections

Migrants will be told they need to spend a decade in the UK before they can apply for citizenship and English language requirements will increased.

Care England has labelled the change a ‘crushing blow to an already fragile sector’.

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.