'Hire Brits first': Keir Starmer pledges to slash levels of migration

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Keir Starmer is facing criticism after pledging to slash levels of migration to the UK and “hire Brits first”.

leader’s migration plan includes passing laws to ban law-breaking employers from hiring foreign workers and to train more Britons.

A Labour government would bar bosses who break employment law – for example by failing to pay workers the minimum wage – from hiring foreigners, the newspaper reported. We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.

 

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