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Labour government has already announced major crackdowns on immigration, including disrupting human trafficking gangs, emptying asylum hotels and increasing the time before indefinite leave to remain is granted. Conservatives claimed Reform was copying their policies
immigration cases. Madeleine Sumption, the director of the Migration Observatory at Oxford University, said: “It’s not clear how much impact a political declaration makes given that judges’ decisions are also driven by domestic
Policy changes from early 2024 under the former Conservative government are likely to have made an impact on the net migration figures. The Labour government has retained the measures and in some cases expanded
Labour’s plans to strip refugees of basic rights, rejecting the home secretary’s accusation that they are “asylum shoppers”. Shabana Mahmood has announced plans to halve refugees’ leave to remain in the UK from
small boat - go on to claim asylum, which allows them to remain in the UK while their application is considered. About half of all asylum claims in 2025 were made by people who had entered
small boats crossing the English Channel, often [dominate the political debate about immigration](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dqqj0v1ndo). And there has been particular controversy about Glasgow. Scotland's largest city has a longstanding issue with a lack