Labour’s anti-migrant policies will hammer Scotland’s care sector
The plan announced by Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to curb international visas for workers in the care sector and other vital parts of the economy will hammer Scotland’s services, say the Scottish Greens.
The comments follow a series of harsh and restrictive announcements by the Home Secretary to crackdown on immigration.
Scottish Green MSP Gillian Mackay said:
“This is a cruel and totally self-defeating policy that will only serve to hammer Scotland’s services.
“There have been warnings of staff shortages from the care sector and others, and these policies will only make them more severe.
“It is extremely cynical politics. Nigel Farage just has to say ‘jump’ and Labour will ask how high. We cannot allow our immigration policy to be set by the far right priorities of Reform, and trying to imitate them won’t help anyone.
“Labour has kept a lot of the most hostile anti-migrant Tory policies in place and doubled down on a failed Brexit that they know has hiked up prices, cost jobs and undermined our right to travel.
“It is time for Scotland to have powers over immigration so that we can build a humane system that treats migrants as human beings and supports our services rather than harming them.
“We can’t allow real people’s lives to be used as pawns in a nasty race to the bottom between Labour, the Tories and Reform.”