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]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/202d0333-29d2-409b-b2a4-690067d7aee6</link><guid isPermaLink="false">202d0333-29d2-409b-b2a4-690067d7aee6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:54:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK investor visa would attract ‘criminals and spies’, campaigners warn ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ministers considering scheme for people who contribute to areas such as AI and clean energy]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/afd7e1ee-16ae-41cc-93cc-f4d931f1c80b</link><guid isPermaLink="false">afd7e1ee-16ae-41cc-93cc-f4d931f1c80b</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 04:00:19 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK visa revamp allows lower-skilled office workers to come to Britain ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rules aimed at tightening regime will at first make provision for temporary shortages in non-graduate occupations]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/392541c7-f775-4326-a7b5-5ba18dd57838</link><guid 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the gangs’ and curb illegal crossings]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/f2949840-db69-437c-98fb-c7c341166506</link><guid isPermaLink="false">f2949840-db69-437c-98fb-c7c341166506</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:11:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Locals live here’: racist attacks inflame Northern Ireland’s divisions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Police chief appeals for end to anti-immigrant violence in region with painful past]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/7e2a0c2b-239f-481a-84a3-234ac71e8740</link><guid isPermaLink="false">7e2a0c2b-239f-481a-84a3-234ac71e8740</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:08:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK lacks skilled workers for new defence and nuclear projects, says union leader]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mike Clancy argues ‘managed immigration’ is needed in some specialist industries]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/c34d519c-8524-45f9-98a1-02be45a7847e</link><guid 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GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour’s small-boat policy risks foundering]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conservative party’s previous success in ‘stopping the lorries’ makes reducing illicit migration harder for government]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/ec018bba-71e8-4d2a-ad69-0c9b9ae4c323</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ec018bba-71e8-4d2a-ad69-0c9b9ae4c323</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 08:53:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK calls on France to stop migrants in shallow waters after ‘shocking’ day ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Britain records year’s highest number of irregular migrant journeys across English Channel ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/9db3d0ec-5762-46d0-9c80-5055c13efc6e</link><guid isPermaLink="false">9db3d0ec-5762-46d0-9c80-5055c13efc6e</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:26:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reader callout: would younger UK employees benefit by working on continent?]]></title><link>https://www.ft.com/content/fda5cdab-0ca3-4804-9b50-ee44ad2d2d7c</link><guid isPermaLink="false">fda5cdab-0ca3-4804-9b50-ee44ad2d2d7c</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 15:02:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I’ve been tricked’: highly paid foreign workers reconsider ties to UK after rule change]]></title><description><![CDATA[White-collar professionals fear being ‘kept in limbo’ after ministers extend waiting time for indefinite leave to remain ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/6eed1704-0beb-492f-a8e1-69d618b91ccf</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6eed1704-0beb-492f-a8e1-69d618b91ccf</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 04:00:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[US applications for British citizenship hit record high after Trump win]]></title><description><![CDATA[Immigration lawyers report surge in Americans looking to move to UK]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/83fd1107-86ce-4acf-a791-03037c80cbb4</link><guid 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crackdown]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plus: latest prisons shake-up]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/958d4ca8-fcfb-4127-82bf-859f9779412c</link><guid isPermaLink="false">958d4ca8-fcfb-4127-82bf-859f9779412c</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 13:06:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alf Dubs and Jacob Rees-Mogg: citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shamima Begum made grave mistakes. But she is our responsibility and no one else’s]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/dcc420ce-88ac-4288-a0bf-e71dbb119725</link><guid isPermaLink="false">dcc420ce-88ac-4288-a0bf-e71dbb119725</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 11:25:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starmer’s immigration speech fits with Labour tradition, but so does losing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Party leadership’s echo of precedent should hardly justify current policy given record of drift and defeat]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/778f32cb-faf7-488c-97d4-0c6ce667d712</link><guid isPermaLink="false">778f32cb-faf7-488c-97d4-0c6ce667d712</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 08:30:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘It will be horrendous’: care crisis warning as UK ends overseas recruitment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Providers say ministers have ‘not been upfront’ about the barriers facing the sector]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/f0ee262c-eb95-4d29-9c1d-fc416191acec</link><guid isPermaLink="false">f0ee262c-eb95-4d29-9c1d-fc416191acec</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 04:00:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The UK needs to make it simpler for the wealthy to move here]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is no longer a visa for successful entrepreneurs to secure residency by investing in the country]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/8e44d59e-22be-44a2-b7b4-53c7310f5d52</link><guid isPermaLink="false">8e44d59e-22be-44a2-b7b4-53c7310f5d52</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 03:00:11 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>