SNP leader John Swinney has said he would work with an incoming Labour government at Westminster to boost immigration to Scotland. He told the BBC’s The Sunday Show he would welcome and engage positively with any plan to use immigration to address skills and workforce shortages. Scottish Labour’s deputy leader Jackie Baillie has told the Herald on Sunday her party would look at ways to “incentivise” migrants to the UK settling in Scotland.
But Mr Swinney cautioned that Labour had taken a “very hostile” attitude to immigration south of the border.
“Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper are on every UK television channel saying they are going to shut the door on immigration,” he said. As it happened: A separate immigration plan for Scotland.
Migration has been a major issue of the election campaign with both the Conservatives and Reform UK saying numbers coming into the UK are too high. Labour has promised to reduce net migration, clamp down on illegal trafficking and reform the points-based system for visas.
Source: BBC
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