Downing Street rejects plan for legal migration cap

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Downing Street Farm has rejected the immigration target for setting goals because officers consider the laws of laws to reduce the number of people in the UK.

In spite of Sir Care Starmer Earlier, he said that he did not want any migration cap, the senior officials were considering the advice-a propaganda by the government and the labor-support about imposing a rigorous limit for the number of thought-tank-internal migration numbers, according to people of discussion.

Under an alternative proposal that Greenlit, the ministers will force employers who are appointed for a mid -skilled role such as construction or social care that they or their sector organizations have plans to train and appoint British workers, people have said.

This proposal for “a tightly controlled structure” for the job below the undergraduate level will form a portion of the plan published next month, some of which will require the law, they have added.

Anti -immigration reform in some of its northern seats to reduce the number of immigrants entering Britain is seen as the root of the Labor to view the challenge from the UK party.

In the opinion survey, the Nigel Farage team, which surpasses labor, wants a frost for all non-essential migration, while on the other hand, anti-conservatives also say they will launch an annual cap on the net migration.

The previous Tory had a legal limit for the government’s immigration, though it was never met.

“We will learn lessons from the catastrophe of the Tory that we set the target of indiscriminately,” a senior official said. “We won’t make the same mistake.”

Business groups have warned that the need for high wages for immigrants or large fees suppressed the flow of talent in the UK and preventing the government’s growth agenda.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves last month indicated that he would try to expand the use of visas for “highest skilled people” in sectors like AI and Life Sciences.

However, Starrs are also facing pressure from dozens of labor MPs who face potential challenges from reforms and want the Prime Minister to take a stronger stand on the issue. Meanwhile, a Think-Tank-Laber, a close link to the administration of Starmer, should set a clear goal for internal immigration by the end of last year in the UK.

In a letter to the ministers of the cabinet last week, Starmar said that politics “was very scared to say what is clear – some people who are real refugees and nothing; people who come here can be positive but an island nation has to control its boundaries.”

Multiple people briefed about the issue said that the idea that Downing Street officials had preliminary support for the introduction of a type of target for the use of various visa routes, the idea was now canceled.

The proposal to access the visa Continent in the training of domestic workers before the election was included in the labor manifesto and Home Secretary Yavet Cooper repeatedly said that it would be the focus of the government’s view of the government in relation to the work.

If the government or their sector is seen making insufficient efforts, the government has not yet determined what restrictions they will face.

The majority of the visits given to low -skilled workers have been in the social care sector since 2022, where employer groups have already set the workplace plan, though they have warned that appointment problems are unlikely to be resolved without raising government funds.

The government’s Migration Advisory Committee warned last year that increasing skills in domestic workforce will not necessarily decrease due to foreign appointment. It will be applied if employers have used the visa system because they could not pay enough money to tempt UK applicants, it said.

People have also flagged the risk in the UK on graduation visa, which allowed them to stay two years after completing a degree before switching a low -pay visa after their time ends.

About five people were switching a visa on a graduate visa, which allowed them to work in the social care sector, compared to only 6 percent of domestic graduates who entered the low-cost service sector. Mac also added that there was some evidence that people were visa-sailing to get a fixed status in the UK.

The government did not immediately respond to any request for comment.