If Labour's policy on immigration is successful it will come at a high cost for the country says Dr Erica Consterdine, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Lancaster University, in a piece in The Conversation.

Keir Starmer's restrictive proposals such as scrapping social care visas, tightening work visas, longer residency requirements, tougher English tests and restructuring student visas will have consequences for the higher education and social care sectors.

In this article, Consterdine argues that instead of embracing 'a more social democratic immigration policy' and investing in 'training, skills and wages of domestic workforces, while providing rights to the migrants who already reside here', Labour have chosen to curtail rights and adopt the rhetoric of the far right.

If Starmer wants his plans to work, she suggests that 'Labour will have to be bolder and provide carrots to go with the sticks.'