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Rishi Sunak has said that generous visa rules make Britain the “best country in the world” for businesses, risking a fresh migration row with Tory MPs.

Kemi Badenoch has backed raising the salary threshold for migrant workers as she called for “the strongest measures possible” to reduce record levels of net migration.

But sources close to the PM dispute the document the former home secretary refers to amounted to a deal.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said the Government is keeping “all options under review” to curb legal migration.

The liberal orthodoxy on mass immigration must change. Even when it was thought that net migration had hit a historic 600,000 last year, it seemed to tip the country into precarious and uncharted territory. But the revision of that figure upwards to 750,000 has plunged politics into the realm of parody. In a country where the refusal to deliver Brexit fully has left millions feeling duped and ignored, that is dangerous. We may be on the cusp of the country’s second major political upset i...

It now seems clear that Rishi Sunak repeatedly blocked attempts by Suella Braverman to implement policies that would bring down the level of immigration. For millions of us who are beyond exasperation at being let down time and again on this issue, that revelation on its own amounts to a sackable offence and puts us into a state of stone-cold fury.

Labour would limit annual net migration, the difference between the number of people coming to live in the UK and those leaving, to 200,000 a year, a senior frontbencher has said.

When Rishi Sunak brought Suella Braverman back into the Cabinet as Home Secretary on October 25 last year, it was seen as a clear signal to the Right of the party that he would be tough on migration.

Advocates of mass immigration often argue that we should accept the huge changes it brings to our country because such immigration brings unalloyed benefits. “If it wasn’t for immigration,” the argument often goes, “there would be no NHS.” By the same logic, we might also argue that the prison population would be considerably smaller.

Rishi Sunak agreed to raise the salary threshold for migrants to £40,000 as part of a deal he struck with Suella Braverman, according to a copy of the pact seen by the Telegraph.