{"id":98025,"date":"2025-05-13T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/98025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:27:11","slug":"brits-now-most-concerned-about-borders-since-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/98025\/","title":{"rendered":"Brits now most concerned about borders since Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday Prime Minister Keir Starmer made his big immigration speech in which he warned that without tightening rules the UK risked becoming an \u2018island of strangers\u2019. Now a new YouGov poll has revealed that 50 per cent of Brits see immigration as the top issue facing Britain \u2013 the highest level since Brexit. The pressure is on\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s survey, collected between 10-12 May, shows that half of UK adults view Britain\u2019s borders as the most important issue facing the country \u2013 up two percentage points on the previous week. Second in line is the economy, which just under one in two adults view as the most pressing problem, and in third place is health \u2013 with just over a third of Brits concerned about the NHS. Lower down on the list are issues such as welfare, tax and Europe \u2013 which only around one in ten people see as being top priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday Prime Minister Keir Starmer made his big immigration speech in which he warned that without tightening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-98025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114500524054011031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98025","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=98025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}