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Lib Dem Party Conference
Policy 24 Sept 2025

Lib Dem party conference 2025: promising foundations to support migrant workers and their families

We joined the 2025 Liberal Democrat party conference to make sure migrant and disadvantaged workers were represented in conversations about health and social care, the NRPF policy, digital IDs, social security and justice reform.

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Ben Goldborough
Policy 9 Sept 2025

Proposals to double settlement requirements will increase exploitation, MPs tell Home Office

Voicing widespread concern from their constituents over the government's controversial plans to double the qualifying period for settlement, a number of MPs highlighted how this would exacerbate the risk of exploitation.

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Seema Malhotra (2)
Policy 28 Jul 2025

Latest changes to the immigration rules: ‘a sub-optimal way to make policy’

The Home Office’s failure to first consider the impact of cutting 180 occupations from the Skilled Worker visa, and closing the Health and Care worker visa overseas, has been lambasted by a Lords Select Committee.

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Sir Geoffrey Is Chair Of The Public Accounts Committee
Policy 22 Jul 2025

Parliamentary report acknowledges scale of exploitation on the Skilled Worker visa

This report is the most damning evidence yet that the government’s work migration system, premised mainly on the concept of sponsorship, was facilitating the widespread exploitation of migrant workers in the UK.

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PAC
Policy 20 May 2025

Skilled Worker visa route comes under scrutiny for migrant worker exploitation

During a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting, Home Office civil servants acknowledged that the Skilled Worker Visa route has been marred by exploitation, but indicated no intention to move away from sponsorship.

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