12-05-2025 17:33 via theguardian.com

‘Cheap foreign labour’ – this is how Keir Starmer denigrates the migrant carers looking after your loved ones

The government’s claims about immigration driving down wages are so demonstrably untrue, it’s hard to feel the appropriate level of outrage I would love to know what exactly happens, in the top-level meetings where the prime minister decides to be even tougher on immigration. Is there anyone in there saying: “This will not halt Reform. This will not make Reform less obnoxious. This will not make them more moderate, and it will not stop people voting for them. All it will do is
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