2<\/p>\n The Tories have unveiled a ‘Deportation Bill’ packed with sweeping curbs on both legal and illegal immigrationCredit: Getty 2<\/p>\n Kemi Badenoch would also enforce a legally binding annual cap on overseas arrivalsCredit: PA<\/p>\n This is intended to stop foreign nationals using lawyers to make spurious asylum claims.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kemi Badenoch<\/a> would also enforce a legally binding annual cap on overseas arrivals to wrestle net migration, down from the mammoth 700,000 last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n She would also impose scientific age-testing on small boat migrants to \u201cend the scandal\u201d of adults posing as kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Conservatives – who oversaw record legal migration while in government – announced the Bill as an \u201calternative\u201d to an imminent Labour crackdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ministers will next week announce restrictions on visas for countries whose citizens regularly abuse the immigration system<\/a> by overstaying, like Pakistan and Nigeria.\u00a0<\/p>\n But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp<\/a> said: \u201cFor months this Labour government has turned a blind eye to the crisis at our borders, as small boat crossings have increased. <\/p>\n “Labour <\/a>and Reform <\/a>are both complicit in the trade of empty slogans and hollow promises. <\/p>\n “Our plan can be enacted now to get immigration back under control.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Kemi\u2019s right – why on earth are we letting migrants coming to UK on work permits claim benefits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Tories have unveiled a \u201cDeportation Bill\u201d packed with sweeping curbs on both legal and illegal immigration.\u00a0 Policies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[527,30,299,528,2725,12,18624,935,118,16,18625,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-80413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-conservative-party","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-labour-party","13":"tag-law","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-refugee-crisis","16":"tag-section-newspolitics","17":"tag-the-sun-newspaper","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-uk-immigration-crisis","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114463569687516866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Migrants](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/migrants-board-smugglers-boat-attempt-982859430.jpg\")
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