Right-wing Tory MPs have urged Rishi Sunak to take motion to scale back immigration, saying the system is “too lenient”.
The New Conservatives group, made up of 25 MPs on the suitable of the celebration, will put ahead quite a lot of proposals to the prime minister in a report launched on Monday, together with ending the momentary visa scheme for care employees and capping the variety of refugees who’re allowed to settle within the UK.
The group, which incorporates the celebration’s deputy chairman, Lee Anderson, mentioned decreasing the variety of migrants coming to the nation was a key a part of Tory victories in so-called crimson wall seats in 2019, and the present degree was having “destabilising economic and cultural consequences”.
The doc comes as strain grows on the prime minister from inside his personal celebration over his immigration insurance policies.
Net migration rose to 606,000 previously 12 months – the very best determine on file – regardless of quite a few pledges from the Conservatives previously 13 years to carry the numbers down.
Mr Sunak additionally faces hassle within the courts over his coverage to sort out unlawful migration, with the Court of Appeal ruling this week that the federal government’s plan to ship folks to Rwanda was illegal.
The New Conservatives declare ending the care employee visa scheme might minimize immigration numbers by greater than 80,000, saying it ought to solely have been momentary to assist throughout the pandemic.
They are additionally calling for a 20,000-person cap on refugee resettlement as one other tactic – although they mentioned it may very well be lifted “to respond to an unforeseen emergency, such as a natural disaster or a war”.
They additionally need research visas to be reserved for “the brightest international students by excluding the poorest performing universities from eligibility criteria”.
The authorities has already launched plans to cease abroad college students from bringing dependents to the nation in a bid to curb immigration numbers.
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