“If employers can secure cheap labour from abroad, they will be more likely to support flexible migration policies, and less likely to invest in the training of UK workers who could then demand higher wages,” said the report backed by the MPs and written by Tom Hunt, the Tory MP for Ipswich. The MPs, many of whom represent Red Wall seats, called for an overhaul of the unduly “lenient” points system, which they said has allowed companies to continue to rely on “cheaper international labour” and “deflate wages for UK workers”. “We need to get immigration falling below 2019 levels as we promised. We are now in danger of eroding public trust, especially among those who voted for the Conservative Party for the first time in 2019. In their foreword to the report, the MPs wrote: “Voters backed Brexit in 2016 expecting immigration would be brought down. It was like the worst possible in-tray for a new job that anyone could imagine.” Over the coming week, the Government faces further defeats in the Lords over its Illegal Migration Bill after peers voted through four amendments last week, described by one minister as an attempt to “wreck” the legislation.Īppearing on the BBC’s Test Match Special on Saturday, Mr Sunak said: “When I took this job, I knew it wasn’t going to be easy. The judgment has delayed removal flights to the African country until at least the new year, depending on the outcome of a Supreme Court appeal by ministers. This added to his problems over immigration after the Court of Appeal recently ruled that the Government’s Rwanda deportation plan was unlawful.
The report, to be published on Monday, created a fresh headache for Mr Sunak, who was struggling to meet his pledge to halve inflation by the end of the year and was facing a backlash from homeowners over soaring interest rates. They include raising salary thresholds so migrant workers have to earn more, restricting foreign students to only top universities, and further curbs on the number of relatives they can bring. They set out 12 measures that they want Mr Sunak to introduce to drastically reduce net migration, which stood at 226,000 at the 2019 election. The MPs, including Lee Anderson and Danny Kruger, warned that the current record net migration of 606,000 was eroding the trust of hundreds of voters who backed Brexit and needs to be cut by more than 440,000 if the party is to “save face” by the time of the next election.
In a report that piled fresh pressure on the Prime Minister, more than 20 MPs from the New Conservatives Group are calling on Mr Sunak to honour the party’s manifesto pledge to reduce net migration by the next election, expected towards the end of 2024. Conservative backbenchers have demanded that Rishi Sunak cut net migration by two-thirds before the next election – or risk losing the trust of voters.
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