POLL OF THE DAY: Is cutting low-skilled worker visas by 50,000 going far enough? YOUR VERDICT

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James Saunders

By James Saunders


Published: 12/05/2025

- 05:00

Updated: 12/05/2025

- 23:40

GB News has reported on an 'industrial-scale' abuse of the care visa route for years - and today, Labour will try and shut it off

Yvette Cooper has pledged to roll out a host of new restrictions in a bid to cut the number of low-skilled foreign workers in Britain by about 50,000 this year.

"We're going to introduce new restrictions on lower-skilled workers, so new visa controls, because we think actually what we should be doing is concentrating on the higher-skilled migration and we should be concentrating on training in the UK," she told broadcasters on Sunday.


"Also, we will be closing the care worker visa for overseas recruitment".

GB News has reported on an "industrial-scale" abuse of the care visa route for years - and today, Labour will be introducing its much-hailed Immigration White Paper to the Commons.

But with net migration reaching 728,000 last year alone, GB News is asking: Is cutting low-skilled worker visas by 50,000 going far enough?

This poll is now closed. See the full results below and continue to have your say in the comments.

In the exclusive poll for GB News membership readers, an overwhelming majority (99 per cent) of the 1,633 voters thought cutting low-skilled worker visas by 50,000 is not going far enough, while just one per cent thought it was.