Cleverly pledges to deliver biggest ever reduction in net migration
The TelegraphA new treaty is expected to be signed with Rwanda on Tuesday, with Mr Cleverly flying to Kigali. Most Conservative MPs welcomed the tougher measures on net migration on Monday night, as did Mrs Braverman – but she also said the package was “too late, and the Government can go further”. Unveiling the five-point plan in the Commons, Mr Cleverly said the measures, combined with a previously announced ban on masters students bringing in some 150,000 relatives a year, represented “the biggest ever reduction in net migration”. He said it would be introduced next spring and cut the number coming to the UK by 300,000 – about a quarter of the 1.2 million people who arrived in Britain last year. Since my first day in the Home Office just three weeks ago, I have been determined to crack down on those who try to jump the queue and exploit our immigration system.” It comes after net migration hit a record high of 745,000 in the year to last December, three times its pre-Brexit level of 239,000, before dropping to 672,000 in the year to June.
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