That included a 170 per cent rise in dependants. Net migration is running at 230,000 people a year – similar to pre-Brexit levels – and Home Office figures this summer revealed that the number of visas for foreign nationals to live, study and work in the UK had exceeded a million for the first time. She indicated that she would be targeting foreign students on “sub-standard” courses in “inadequate” universities, their dependants and “low-skilled” workers in, for example, agriculture where farmers should be turning to automation and local UK employees. She declined to put a timescale on it, but maintained it was her “unfiltered, unvarnished, unapologetic” aim to bring down net migration despite the push for growth. Mrs Braverman declared that her “ultimate aspiration” was to get net migration down into the tens of thousands, a target that was scrapped by Boris Johnson. She opened with a defence of scrapping the 45p rate, saying: “I’m very disappointed that members of our own parliamentary party staged a coup effectively and undermined the authority of the Prime Minister in an unprofessional way.”
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She also set out her vision to bring net migration down to tens of thousands in the long term while promising new laws to ensure anyone who deliberately entered the UK illegally from a “safe” country such as France would be returned to their home state or relocated to Rwanda to claim asylum.Ī whirlwind series of conference appearances, starting with her Telegraph interview, established her reputation as a new heroine of the Tory grassroots with a standing ovation before she had even finished her speech in the main auditorium. In a wide-ranging interview for The Telegraph’s Chopper’s Politics podcast at the Conservative Party Conference, the Home Secretary entered the debate over welfare spending cuts by warning Britain still had a “Benefits Street culture”, even in the more prosperous South. Suella Braverman has accused Tory rebels of staging a “coup” to force the Government to scrap its plan to abolish the 45p top rate of income tax.
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