Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised on Monday to cut net migration to Britain significantly over the next four years, saying the country risked becoming “an island of strangers” if it could not maintain social cohesion.
Controlling immigration was a key factor in Britain’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union, yet net arrivals reached record levelsafter it left the bloc, helping to boost Nigel Farage’s right-wing, anti-immigration Reform UK party.
