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2. Don't be so 100% sure about Labour as it currently is being too much in favour of immigration. They have also been making worrying noises about bringing the numbers down (though the number that the OBR (Office for Budget Responsibility) gave for 2022 - 23 of net migration, 745000, is too high). They might be a bit less hostile to immigration than the current Tory administration (maybe more like Tories in 2020 - 2021). Watch out for Labour's manifesto. Even with Boris/Truss, the Indians were negotiating with a Tory party whose manifesto said they'd bring immigration down to "the tens of thousands", which is why they found it difficult (as Tories needed to show their people at home that they weren't being too flexible either). My observations of Keir Starmer's political technique indicate that he is likely to be pragmatic, in other words, for our people, sensible. He might compromise (to a limited extent) on work visas for Indians, allowing for the give-and-take that you have described. Or, he and his people might push hard on some other Indian weak point, forcing us to relent, re. foreign law firms. Remember, Starmer, the likely future prime minister, is a lawyer by training and a former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Therefore, he will be batting hard for the legal sector, something Conservatives in modern times (surprisingly for people who know anything about British conservatism) haven't been doing for some considerable time. If you do some research, you will find that they have made some really damaging financial cuts to the criminal justice system/prisons, and restricted legal aid hugely. This trend of throwing the British legal sector under the bus at home has also been reflected abroad in their reluctance to bat for the UK legal sector in the international space, something which will massively change from July 5.