Sir Keir Starmer has described the UK’s net immigration reaching a new record as a ‘different order of failure’ as he accused the previous Conservative government of ‘running an open borders experiment’ in Britain.
The Prime Minister held a Downing Street press conference in which he responded to shock data showing an extra 906,000 people have been added to the population in a year.
Sir Keir said the previous government presided over a ‘complete loss of control’ and vowed to bring down the numbers by stopping an ‘overreliance’ on foreign workers through building up the skills of British ones.
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