PM: Immigration should be controlled and selective
Labour’s plans for controlling immigration should be seen “in conjunction” with the Government’s work on welfare, the Prime Minister said.
Asked what his message was for “the nine million inactive adults in the UK” and to Labour MPs who may be “squeamish” about the Government’s tougher line on immigration, Sir Keir Starmer said: “Well, firstly, let’s acknowledge, within that nine million there are some people who can’t work, and we need to be clear about that from the start, but there are others who can, and as we’ve set out in our welfare provisions, the principles are clear – where people can’t work (or) are unlikely to be able to work, they should be protected and supported.
“But where people can get into work, they should be supported.
“The current system does the opposite, and so we will support them into work with a £1 billion package, the right to try and measures like that and that if you can work, you should work and I do think that this White Paper should be seen in conjunction with what we’re doing on welfare.
“And on ‘squeamishness’, I actually think that the Labour Party has as core values the idea that immigration should be controlled, that it should be selective.
“We should be choosing who we want, higher skills, the high talent routes into our country, and it must be fair, they’re basic Labour arguments and concepts for many, many years.”
Now trying to claim as Labour arguments and concepts.

This is all Ive been saying but lets not fool ourselves. This is all bluster and hot air