The decision last week by British Prime Minister Starmer to tighten the UK's immigration regime is an attempt to clean up another mess Labour inherited from the Conservatives' largely wasted 2010–2024 government The biggest risk of all is that Starmer could simply end up joining a long list of British prime ministers who, on immigration (as on much else), have overpromised but underdelivered The author is a professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London and author of The Conservative