Keir Starmer makes bold pledges and promises to cut migration…. but we all know he talks a good game

Keir has the talk… but what’s the plan?

IT’S NOT every day you hear a Labour leader promising to cut migration.

Sir Keir Starmer boasts to us: “Read my lips — I will bring immigration numbers down.”

He puts no figure or time limit on his claims but makes bold pledges to stop bad employers from using foreign workers. It sounds pie in the sky.

Sir Keir says if he gets into Number Ten he will encourage more Brits into apprenticeships so they are first in the queue for UK jobs.

We all know the Labour leader talks a good game.

But to be successful in reducing legal migration a Labour government would also have to commit to welfare reform and stopping illegal migrants.

Neither of which they have a credible plan for.

There is no doubt our net migration figures — a staggering 685,000 last year — are a national disgrace.

This is partly down to the lax system which has allowed far too many into the UK on student visas.

The apprenticeship system also desperately needs fixing so more Brits get work in industries suffering from shortages.

But there are already nearly a million unfilled jobs in Britain.

The care sector is reliant for its survival on foreign labour.

Getting Brits to fill these jobs will require whoever wins the election to conduct a root-and-branch welfare reform in order to incentivise work over benefits.

So far Sir Keir has said nothing about how he would achieve that.

In fact those on Labour’s hard-left would fight to resist it and pour more cash into the system.

Which would only make the whole problem much worse.

New hope on cancer

BREAST cancer kills around 12,000 women every year.

Shockingly, thousands die despite successful initial treatment.

So the new super-sensitive blood test that can spot dangerous cells coming back could provide a medical miracle for those women who suffer a relapse.

A simple biopsy pinpoints tumour DNA in cells.

Trials show that the test can sound the alarm years in advance — up to 41 months — allowing doctors vital extra time to fight the disease.

If the trials continue to be successful, this test must be put into the hands of NHS doctors as soon as possible.

The sooner it starts saving lives the better.