Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to “take back control of our borders” and close the page on a “squalid chapter” for politics and the economy as he outlined plans to tighten immigration policy.

Migrants will be told they need to spend up to a decade in the UK before they can apply for citizenship and English language requirements will be increased as part of the Government’s immigration crackdown.

The Prime Minister said: “‘Take back control.’ Everyone knows that slogan, and everyone knows what it meant on immigration, or at least that’s what people thought.

“Because what followed from the previous government, starting with the people who used that slogan, was the complete opposite.

“Between 2019 and 2023, even as they were going round our........

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