UK’s Starmer says net migration will fall significantly

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised net migration would fall significantly by 2029 as he announced policies to boost skills and training.

“It’s (…) a white paper that deals with skills and training, and one of the reasons that we’ve had stagnant growth… is because we have underinvested chronically in skills and growth,” he said on Monday.

(This story has been refiled to add dropped words to a quote in paragraph 2)

(Reporting by Sarah Young, writing by Sam Tabahriti, editing by Paul Sandle)

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