A week inside frantic Tory migration plans
This week it seems that the government have been doing anything and everything to tackle the high migration numbers, that means cracking down on both illegal and legal routes to entering the UK. First new visa requirements were announced, stating that applicants would need to earn £38,700 to be eligible (higher than the average UK salary) and that this would also apply to UK citizens who intended to bring a foreign partner to the country on a spousal visa.
Not long after this Home Secretary James Cleverly announced those changes, he signed a treaty with Rwanda and the government published its…
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