Rishi Sunak poised to propose annual visa cap to try to reduce immigration as Reform party leader says he is leading ‘political revolt’ against Conservatives
The home secretary, James Cleverly, has been asked about the Conservative’s commitment to capping the number of visas. Asked on BBC Breakfast why they are not putting a number on the annual cap in visas, he said: Well, we know that immigration, legal migration, has been too high over the last couple of years. We’ve taken measures already which, as your report said, has now started to bring those figures down, measures that were opposed at the time by the Labour party.
But we also recognise, as your report said, there are benefits to migration. My mother came here as a migrant, as did many other people in the UK who have contributed enormously to our society and to our economy. But migration – just as with every other public policy – comes at a cost and balancing the benefits and cost is what our new policy is going to do.
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