Day: May 12, 2025

Prime minster to unveil immigration white paper that he claimes will be ‘clean break from past’

• What change in rules means for migrants and employers

Here is an analysis of the what we are expecting in the white paper from Rajeev Syal, the Guardian’s home affairs editor.

And here is an extract.

[The white paper] will challenge a central tenet of Labour’s economic policies for decades: that immigration is broadly good because it helps the economy to grow.

Government insiders say that the “failed free-market experiment” of allowing overseas workers to freely enter the UK has been a major factor in generating political chaos over the past decade.

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Prime minster to unveil immigration white paper that he claimes will be ‘clean break from past’

• What change in rules means for migrants and employers

Here is an analysis of the what we are expecting in the white paper from Rajeev Syal, the Guardian’s home affairs editor.

And here is an extract.

[The white paper] will challenge a central tenet of Labour’s economic policies for decades: that immigration is broadly good because it helps the economy to grow.

Government insiders say that the “failed free-market experiment” of allowing overseas workers to freely enter the UK has been a major factor in generating political chaos over the past decade.

Continue reading…