The UK’s Anti-Migrant Right Is Surging. Local Elections Will Test Their Power.
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In recent months, as the anti-immigrant Reform U.K. Party surged to the top of the polls, the U.K.’s Labour government has sought to make it harder for immigrants to get “indefinite leave to remain” — essentially a British version of the U.S. green card — as well as restrict access to benefits for immigrants. Currently, immigrants can seek “indefinite leave to remain” after five years in the…