Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Prime Minister Starmer cracking down on international students applying for asylum

Prime Minister Starmer has announced plans are in place to crack down on international students applying for asylum in the UK in a bid to address migration figures.

An immigration white paper setting out the proposed reforms in mid-May will include measures to reduce the number of UK students making asylum claims after their visas expire.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says Nigel Farage's Reform Party is gaining popularity - and the Government is looking to push back.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Heather, I enjoy your show full stop a lot. Thank
you full stop. I feel like that full stop is
quite like an emphasist.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well, let's stop reading the text. Now. That's a perfectly
nice you very much.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
To go down downhill from here. But I don't like
the way that you pronounced transplant transfer and transaction. And
you have to say it out loud to see the
inconsistency of my pronunciation. There, transfer transplant, transport transaction. Now
I say, I read that out to the German before

(00:31):
and and adds obviously, And she said to me, there
is a difference between data and data. They mean different things.
And I am surprised by this. And we have sent
the German away to figure out what on earth the
difference is, if this difference even exists. So stay tuned.
She will be back, very diligent, because it's German to
be back to us. And just oh, she just put
her finger up in the air and said one minute,

(00:54):
please and walk.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I think she's going to go consult an expert.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Oh, I thought she's walking to the printer where I
just wanted.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
To She could be she could be leaving the building.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
She's had a guts full of a day. So what's
this nonsense with English people who constantly mack up their
own language? Anyway, I just want to point out out
printers do work here, so if the government would like
to come and use them from time.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
From your transport pronunciation as well.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Danks very much. Thirteen away from seven and Indo Bradio
UK correspondents with us Inda.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Hello, Heather. I enjoy your show a lot. There is
no but I love you anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
You are such a nice man. I always appreciate talking
to you. Hey, tell me what I've got you here? Inda?
And what's Stamma planning to do? What are these announcements?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
So he needs to do something to tackle the rampant
popularity of Nigel Farage. So a couple of things in
the papers today which are obviously going to happen. I
think they're just kind of sailing it out today to
see if it sinks or swims. So, first of all,
student visas from certain countries. The government has been looking
at all the data or data on this and basically

(01:56):
three countries are of concern with regard to student v Pakistan,
Sri Lanka and Nigeria. They're seeing a very serious pattern
here of young people wanting to come to the UK
getting student visas, and then after a short period claiming asylum,
trying to claim asylum. And the end result is this

(02:16):
is a very very big number, sixteen million dollars a
day being spent every day by the UK government on
accommodation for people who are claiming asylum. Sixteen million dollars
a day. So one thing they're going to do is
get tough on those three countries and their student visas.
And then secondly the winter fuel payments about six hundred dollars.

(02:37):
Starmer basically blitz that over winter, no more winter fuel
payments for pensioners, regardless of how rich or poor you are.
They're going to perhaps row back on that.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Ah, that's embarrassing. Haven't they just like a list of
ministers go out and defend this decision.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yes, yeah, exactly. And they were given no choice. And
Starmer's mantra was that there's no money in the kitty,
Blame the Conservatives fourteen years of ruin. So I think
what they're gonna do is roll back on it, perhaps
put a threshold in place so that the poorest pensioners
will get it again next winter, because forage is making
gangs left, right and center, and as much as people

(03:15):
have laughed, he is saying I will be Prime minister
in four years time. I've had people come up to
me over the weekend saying, what do you think Farage
will be like as prime minister? Well, it's cutting, it's
cutting through.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, that's very interesting. How did you see Prince Louis
at the ve Day celebrations.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I love the.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Little hair flick mocking his older brother George. Yeah, do
you know what? He's a character. It's been positive. I
think the last twenty four hours for the Royal family
to not be listening to whatever Harry's latest wine or whinges.
Harry dominated the news agenda all weekend, so I think
it was best foot forward for the Royals. Yesterday we

(03:52):
saw the fly past. I thought it was a nice touch,
putting the veterans, the survivors of World War Two, front
and center of everything, and Royle's mingling in with them,
Starmer being there at Vett Cooper's Home Secretary. I thought
it was a successful day.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Now what happened with David Bickham's Patty right, It got
stopped at four in the morning, But I thought it
was in a part of London where there are bars,
and so that shouldn't be a surprise or am I wrong?

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Well, people still live in Kensington and people have work
to do. And yes, it was wonderful for David Beckham
to turn fifty and have Tom Cruise there and Gordon
Ramsey and Guy Ritchie the movie director and Manchester United
players and everyone partying in a Mitchell and Dard restaurant. However,
the noise was still going on pushing four am in
the morning, so local residents rang the council. Council officers

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came out and the music was switched off and the
party ended. So not a great look. And I have
to say the other issue in the Beckham household, the
eldest son, Brooklyn, seems to have cut them all adrift.
He is not at any of the functions, not at
any of the parties, and not in any of the photos.
So you wonder what's going on there with him and
his wife.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
I noticed that thank you, ind I love you, thank
you just because you love me. So I just that
got weird, didn't it. I don't know if I do
you say to other people that you love them? Do
you say to other people I just did, though, didn't
I anyway, my friends might just to make this less
weird for me and Ninda and everybody. Right now, my
friends and I do say to each other that we

(05:19):
love each other because there's not enough love in the world,
and so I say it. I say it. I say
it to my son so much he doesn't listen to
it anymore. And I say it to my friends, and
now I say it to Endo two right away from
seven

Speaker 3 (05:33):
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