Hi, I’m Jay Latham and I am The Liberal Party candidate for St Austell & Newquay.
I am a Liberal Party parish Councillor and previously ran a hotel in Watergate Bay, providing safe accommodation and nourishing meals for school trips.
As a lifelong Liberal activist and campaigner for justice, I will continue to fight for the WASPI women, and, more recently, those who suffered unfairly in the Post Office Scandal.
If it hadn’t been for one individual standing up to the establishment, we would have never known all these people were innocent.
I will push for more social care and a dentist for every resident in every town. I am passionate about our marine environment and our wonderful Cornish fishermen, who are still being forced to dump prime, dead fish back into the sea, especially at a time when many families in Cornwall are struggling to put food on the table.
The government are not addressing these nonsensical issues as Cornwall is always an afterthought in Westminster.
I have four children, one of whom is a world class sailor, having grown up surrounded by our beautiful shores. I sing with The North Cornwall Choir and the Good Afternoon Choir.
On the subject of immigration, our policy is:
Asylum Seekers: Scrap the Government plans to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda.
Four offshore vessels will be harboured on the English Channel whereby all illegal immigrants trying to cross into Britain will be initially processed on the vessels, before either making their way to the UK or back to France (depending on not if their application has been successful or not).
Try and reach an agreement with France to be able to return the migrants back to France should their application be deemed unsuccessful.
End indefinite detention for Asylum Seekers.
Make detention an absolute last resort, introduce a 90 day time limit on detention and increase the number of detention centres from nine to twelve.
Provide free basic English lessons to asylum seekers and scrap the 16 hours-per-week rule with respect to financial support for those unable to work due to insufficient English.
Allow asylum seekers to work after three months.
Refugees: Provide safe and legal routes to sanctuary in the UK by resettling 10,000 vulnerable refugees each year and a further 10,000 unaccompanied refugee children from elsewhere around the world over the next ten years, and expand family reunion rights.
Scrap the Nationality and Borders Bill 2022 and set up a visa scheme for Palestinians fleeing the conflict in the Middle East along the same lines as the Ukrainian and Hong Kong visa scheme.
Migrants: Scrap net migration targets and subsequently remove students from net migration figures.
Introduce a new classification for seasonal workers from the poorest countries.
Require all persons being granted residency to demonstrate they have both adequate medical insurance as well as basic English.
Introduce auction of employer permits to hire foreign workers.
Extend the post-study work visa from two years to four.
Establish a dedicated unit that deals solely with Immigration within the Home Office to improve the speed and quality of decision making.
Move to freer movement of workers from across the Commonwealth, specifically, Canada, Australia and New-Zealand.
Greatly expand the number of Tier 2 (General) visas available for skilled workers who wish to move to the UK.
All skilled workers coming into the UK must have a job that pays at least the average UK wide wage so that they are net contributors to the UK economy.
Set up a lottery-based guest worker programme for unskilled workers from abroad, modelled on New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme and Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, which have shown to deliver enormous welfare gains to migrants and their families.
Introduce a real-time border database and biometric scanning system with a private sector operator paid by results.
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