PM “is doing nothing to deport illegal migrants”, senior Conservative Robert Jenrick has claimed, after Sir Keir Starmer faced a backlash for his plans to cut net migration.
The plans, which are expected to reduce the number of people coming to the UK by up to 100,000 per year, include reforming work and study visas and requiring a higher level of English language across all immigration routes. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
The plans, which are expected to reduce the number of people coming to the UK by up to 100,000 per year, include reforming work and study visas and requiring a higher level of English language across all immigration routes. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, the vast majority of people who work in our care homes are British.
00:05There have been a number of people who've come in in recent years from overseas,
00:09and that's been a mistake.
00:11Those people have put pressure on public services here in the UK.
00:16They've often brought dependents with them,
00:18and that costs the British taxpayer money in years to come.
00:22What I want to see is the care sector paying British workers more,
00:27treating their workforce better, giving career progression to those individuals,
00:32and us getting some of the millions of people in our country
00:35who are currently out of work, off benefits, and into fulfilling careers in the care sector,
00:41rather than simply relying on the lever of low-wage, low-skilled migration from overseas,
00:47which is not sustainable.
00:48I would like the government to go much further with respect to universities.
00:52We need to ensure that our universities are educating people,
00:56not in the immigration business, as some have fallen into in recent years,
01:01where they've become reliant upon foreign students,
01:04some of whom are not interested in the courses that they're doing here.
01:07They're simply interested in it as a backdoor to life in the United Kingdom.
01:11And many of those people go on to work in low-paid, low-wage jobs,
01:16as delivery drivers or in the care sector,
01:19not in graduate-level jobs.
01:21If you come here to a university and want to stay, at a minimum,
01:26you should be doing it at a graduate level.
01:28The number of people coming across on small boats is soaring.
01:31This is the worst year ever.
01:34The action on legal migration is insufficient to bring the numbers down
01:37to the level that the British public expect.
01:39He's doing nothing to get the million people in this country
01:42who are here illegally deported back home to their own countries.
01:46Those are the steps that are necessary.
01:47He's simply yet another politician lying to the British public
01:51because he thinks it's the right thing to do politically,
01:53but not taking the action that's necessary to actually deliver.