High immigrant application fees, UK

Non-privileged people permitted to into the UK but those whose permission is not permanent have to pay over USD 1500 per year on formalities to reapply for permission. This continues for ten years. This is not nominally a fee for residence, but it is tantamount to that. No wonder Starmer Labour, competing in harshness with right wing extremists, proposes to require extend that fee to 20 years.