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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 ....
hello. i m nicky schiller. welcome to the programme. we start this hour with the latest on the uk general election. in the last hour the scottish national party leader, john swinney has launched his party s campaign for the vote onjuly the 4th. at an election rally mr swinney pushed for independence, celebrated his party s record on fighting the cost of living as well as attacking both the conservatives and labour. he said people in scotland wanted rid of a disastrous tory government, and he accusing labour of giving an awfully good impression of them. let s take a listen to some of what the snp leader said. there are some people telling me to forget about this election, but after looking at sir keir starmer s series of u turns, i think people are crying out for political leadership. for leaders who argue for what they actually believe in. and i passionately believe independence is the best opportunity we have to build a more prosperous and fairer country. snp leade ....
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 ....
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 able to deal with. net migration is forecast to fall anyway in the next coming years, but what is critically important from the liberal democrats point of view is that we actually start to pay our care workers properly and that is why we are pledging to give them an increased minimum wage, £2 higher than the minimum wage for other sectors, and only by doing that, by investing in our care workers here in our domestic workforce, can we reduce the demand for foreign workers to come and fill those vacancies. the snp have accused labour and the conservatives of blaming migrants rather than the westminster government for the country s problems. and reform uk have proposed a tax on businesses employing overseas workers. labour intends to firmly park its tanks on the conservatives lawn. with legal migration numbers sky high, it is set ....