Numbers of migrants applying for British visas, along with their families, have plummeted by over a third compared to last year, all thanks to the Tories cracking down on social care workers and students bringing relations over. In July last year, 143,000 hopefuls applied to live in the UK as skilled workers, but this July, that number has nosedived to 93,000. Not being able to bring the rest of  family along to the UK has put many off from even bothering to apply. Starmer should be grateful to the Tories for this one…

The head of the Migration Advisory Committee has forecasted a drop in net migration by 200,000 this year due to these measures. Yet, Yvette Cooper has already taken the axe to the Tory proposal to hike the income threshold for bringing a foreign partner to the UK from £18,600 to £29,000—a policy that could have curbed the numbers even more so. ‘The plan was working’…