hello. welcome to the programme. we start this hour here in the uk with the general election campaign. labour says it s committed to reducing the number of people legally migrating to britain if it forms the next government. but speaking earlier, the shadow home secretary yvette cooper refused to set a target or any date by which a reduction would be achieved. net migration, the difference between the number of people arriving in the uk and leaving, stood at 685,000 last year. labour s plans include more apprenticeships in jobs that are currently reliant on a significant level of migrant workers. here s our political correspondent ione wells. immigration is a sticky issue in this election campaign, and both major parties say they want to control it. labour says it would train more uk workers to fill skills shortages and it says firms that pay exploitative wages would be banned from hiring foreign workers. but labour have not put a figure on how much they would reduce it by, a
hello. we start in the uk, where sir keir starmer has pledged to reduce the number of people legally migrating to the country, if labour win the general election. he plans to introduce new laws to train british workers to plug skills gaps in thejob market and strengthen anti exploitation laws. meanwhile, the conservatives have promised to build 100 new gp surgeries in england and boost the number of available appointments if they win the election. and in the coming hours john swinney, leader of the scottish national party, will formally launch the party s campaign, where he ll argue independence offers the country a better future . here is our political correspondent ione wells. immigration is a sticky issue in this campaign and both major parties say they want to control it. labour says it would train more uk workers to fill skills shortages and it says firms that pay exploitative wages would be banned from hiring foreign workers. but labour have not put a figure on how muc
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workers to fill skills shortages and it says firms that pay exploitative wages would be banned from hiring foreign workers. but labour have not put a figure on how much they would reduce it by, a or a timeframe for when. i know that you are effectively trying to suggest i set a target or a broad target, i am not going to do that. we are going to be clear, net migration must come down, we believe it is important, and what keir has set out is commitments that we will bring migration down. the conservatives and the liberal democrats have announced their own migration policies. with this announcement today it seems that they are copying - and pasting policies that - are already in place, so we have tried through the introduction - of salary thresholds and increasing the salary threshold is we have seen already a real impact on legal - migration because we understand that there is a balancing act - | between attracting the brightestj to the united kingdom but doing so in a way that we i are