GB News host Andrew Pierce and Bev Turner have delivered their verdict on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's latest migration crackdown - claiming the move was influenced by Reform UK.
Announcing a new immigration white paper to the nation, the Labour leader claimed the "open border experiment is over", vowing to bring migration numbers down "significantly".
In a stark warning to Britons, Starmer cautioned that our country could become an "island of strangers" unless tougher measures are put in place.
Starmer declared: "In a diverse nation like ours, and I celebrate that, these rules become even more important. Without them, we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together."
Andrew Pierce tore into Keir Starmer's new Immigration White Paper on migration, claiming it is 'because of Reform'
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Offering their thoughts on Starmer's announcement, Britain's Newsroom host Bev Turner claimed there wasn't a "huge amount of detail" in the Prime Minister's plan.
Bev said: "We've been mulling over the detail of what he was saying this morning - and there isn't a huge amount of detail. There's very little that you can hold him to account for further down the line."
Highlighting the use of "language" by the Labour leader, Bev then highlighted: "It was the kind of speech that I thought, if Nigel Farage used some of those words, there would be national outcry - an island of strangers?!"
Weighing in on the speech, GB News Home and Security Editor Mark White added: "He spent the whole speech really talking up the contribution that migrants have made to the country, while at the same time telling us that in recent years, the balance has changed, with many migrants not contributing as they should to the economy and actually driving down wages, which of course is a driver behind the Government's ambition to try to get net migration down.:
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Sir Keir Starmer claimed the 'one nation experiment' on 'open borders' is 'over'PACriticising Starmer, GB News host Andrew Pierce claimed that the Prime Minister's sudden announcement comes just days after Reform UK's local election victory, and a surge in the polls - placing them in a 10-point lead ahead of the Government.
Andrew fumed: "We know this is all because of Reform, because I was just checking his manifesto - he had a mission statement, first steps, and milestones.
"The milestones were in December, and he didn't mention cutting migration. No mention of it. He's only doing this north London liberal lawyer thing because of the Reform surge in the polls."
Offering a defence for Starmer, Mark argued that the White Paper will have been in "gestation for months" - but priorities within the White Paper "may have changed" following Reform's success.
Andrew and Bev criticised the announcement by the Prime Minister
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Mark claimed: "We can see that the White Paper has been months in gestation - it might be argued, and you may well have a strong point here, that it assumed a new priority, and perhaps some of the measures in the White Paper have been stepped up in the light of the successes that Reform has been having.
"There's no doubt, just listening to the language, it was a tougher language in terms of what he wants to do in reducing the number of migrants who are coming across here, who are not skilled and who are, as the Prime Minister believes, pulling the the wages down because they're coming in and doing the jobs cheaper."
He added: "It's estimated that these changes might bring it down by another 50, 60, 70,000. But we're still talking several hundreds of thousands, maybe half a million net migration this year, when the figures come out a week on Thursday
"That's nowhere near enough, as far as most people in the country are concerned."
