Nigeria, May 12 -- Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced strict new immigration measures to reduce net migration to the United Kingdom significantly.

The changes are detailed in a government White Paper titled Restoring Control Over the Immigration System, released on Monday, 12 May 2025.

The decision comes after net migration reached 728,000 in the year to June 2024, down from a peak of 903,000 the previous year but still far above pre-Brexit levels.

Starmer criticised what he described as an "almost addicted" reliance on cheap foreign labour and pledged to replace it with investment in domestic skills.

"This is a clean break from the past and will ensure settlement in this country is a privilege that must be earned, not a right,...