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The party says its proposals, including raising salary thresholds for foreign workers, would cut migration.

We need to reduce immigration not just to lessen the pressure on the country’s infrastructure and public services. Net migration at the current, massive rate is in danger of damaging social cohesion and eroding our national values.

Downing Street has moved to quell a Conservative backlash over the new Home Secretary’s warning that people should not “fixate” on the Government’s flagship Rwanda migration scheme.

The Labour Party holds a 17 point poll lead over the Conservatives, according to a new survey conducted by Savanta.

The salary threshold for foreign workers to come to Britain should be raised to £40,000 to slash record levels of migration, Boris Johnson has said.

Most people wanting to come to the UK need to apply via a points-based system.

Net migration has hit a new record high, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Record immigration means the Treasury can afford the tax cuts announced in the Autumn Statement this week, economists have said.

A group of Conservative MPs have demanded action to get a grip on immigration in a strongly-worded statement.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced heavy pressure from his own Conservatives to take swift action to bring down migration, as new data published Thursday showed net migration numbers were higher than previously thought. The Office for National Statistics revised its estimates for net migration to the U.K. — meaning the number of people arriving minus those leaving — in the year to December 2022 to 745,000. The more hard-line wing of the Tories called for Sunak to “act n...