Starmer rejects immigration devolution
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper during the Interpol General Assembly, at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow, November 4, 2024
CALLS for Holyrood to gain immigration powers have been dismissed by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
The Labour leader made the remarks in Glasgow after a controversial address to the Interpol conference, where he pledged to double spending on his Border Security Command to £150 million over the next two years.
He also vowed to treat “people-smugglers as terrorists.”
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