Do you know which nation has low immigration? North Korea.
Starmer made his infamous speech on immigration, but has since said how he ‘deeply regrets’ his island of strangers speech. It is importance to acknowledge that illegal migration is wrong, this including economic migrants who are exploiting the asylum system to come here. We need international cooperation to ensure that genuine refugees get help, but action to ensure that the system is not abused. We need international cooperation to ensure that refugees can be returned to their home nation in the event that serious crimes are committed. But we also need to make genuine refugees welcome and offer them a safe way of crossing the channel.
Most importantly, we need to stress the advantages of immigration. Brexit has harmed our nation, it has led to a brain drain, an example of this is in medicine. We should be limiting immigration, but we should limit some aspects of it and we should INCREASE it in other areas.