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Care homes will no longer be able to hire overseas staff as part of a sweeping clampdown on migration that will heavily restrict UK employers’ ability to use the visa system to fill lower-skilled jobs. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced on Sunday that the care worker visa route would be cancelled within months, part of a migration white paper to be published on Monday which aims to radically reduce net inward migration to Britain.
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New rules limiting skilled worker visas to graduate level jobs were intended to end what Cooper called a “failed free market experiment”, where employers had been able to recruit freely overseas as the UK’s homegrown workforce shrank and economic inactivity rose. But she said that while her plans would lead to a “substantial reduction” in the number of people coming to the UK, she would not be setting any numerical target for net migration. The changes come after the anti-immigration Reform UK party made widespread gains in local elections in England earlier this month, and has pulled ahead of Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party in opinion polls. In a sign of the government’s recognition of the political jeopardy if they fail to bring down migration, Starmer on Sunday repeated his promise “to restore control and cut migration . . . with tough new measures”, adding: “British workers — I’ve got your back.”
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