It comes after Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced that the qualifying period for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) could change from five years to 10 or even 15 and that this could apply retrospectively.

Now, a community survey shared with the Sunday National from campaign group Skill Migrants Alliance of more than 10,187 skilled migrants has found that 62% would “seriously consider” leaving the UK if the changes go ahead.

Meanwhile, a further 31% say they would “possibly” leave.

In the last week, UK Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has reacted angrily to suggestions that she is trying to "out Reform" Reform. However, the evidence that this is exactly what she is seeking to do is overwhelming.

The only reason to change the rules on indefinite leave to remain in the UK, as she is doing, is to use migrants already in this country with legal permission as weapons in Labour's war to fight off the threat from far-right political parties. In the process, they are sacrificing the interests,  concerns and well-being of all these valuable members of our communities, whilst prejudicing the future of many of the public and other services on which we are so dependent in this country and which are supplied now, as they often have been throughout history, by people who have come to this country to live.

Shabana Mahmood and the entire Labour edifice that supports this action, from Kaya Starmer downwards, should hang their heads in shame at their actions. No political party that respects human rights, human well-being, diversity, and the contribution that migrants have always brought to the UK could behave in the way that they are doing. They are collectively a bunch of charlatans pursuing a toxic political agenda to advance their own self-interest at considerable cost to others. The sooner they are thrown out of office, the better.