'New approach' to legal migration
The Herald|August 01, 2024
A “NEW approach” to legal migration aimed at boosting the UK workforce’s skills before recruiting abroad will be taken by the incoming Government, Yvette Cooper has said.
'New approach' to legal migration

In a swipe at the previous Conservative government, the Home Secretary said rising levels of legal migration in recent years reflected a “failure over many years to tackle skills shortages and other problems in the UK labour market”.

In a ministerial statement published as MPs left Westminster for the summer, she pointed to a rise in non-EU long-term migration from 277,000 in the year to December 2022 to 423,000 in the year to December 2023.

The number of work visas in the 12 months to March 2024 was, meanwhile, 605,264, or “over three times that of 2019”, she said.

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