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Suella Braverman has savaged the Conservative government this afternoon after figures out this morning showed record migration statistics for a second year running.
The former Home Secretary compared the last two years-worth of net migration flowing into the UK to the population equivalent of Birmingham, demanding to know "When do we say: enough is enough?”
Ms Braverman raged at the pressure the additional 672,000 residents will place on housing, the NHS, schools, wages and community cohesion, branding the influx “unsustainable".
Despite running the Home Office for the last year, Ms Braverman said today's record numbers "are a slap in the face to the British public”.
"We were elected on a pledge to reduce net migration, which was 229,000 in 2019.
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Rishi Sunak reportedly blocked Ms Braverman's demand for a migrant cap (Image: Getty)
"Today’s record numbers are a slap in the face to the British public who have voted to control and reduce migration at every opportunity.
"We must act now to reduce migration to sustainable levels.”
Ms Braverman claims that as Home Secretary, she pushed for a number of new migration controls to be implemented, with the implication that No. 10 and other departments slapped her down.
Among the radical post-Brexit policies she wants to see used, she has demanded:
An annual cap on net migration Raising the salary threshold to ￡45,000 Closing the graduate visa route Capping health & social care visas Limiting dependents on all visas
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Ms Braverman's furious intervention adds to the chorus of outraged right wing Tories who have responded to this morning's announcement.
One Tory MP told the Express: "This. Cannot. Continue. No one has ever voted for this. This is migration on a scale this country has never witnessed before".
Last night it was reported Rishi Sunak rejected an annual cap on overall migration when Ms Braverman proposed it.
The former home secretary had demanded a yearly limit on the amount of migrants who would be allowed to enter the country, agreed each year by MPs.
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A source close to Ms Braverman told the Telegraph: “It was rejected and didn’t get beyond the concept stage”.
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Ms Braverman’s deputy Robert Jenrick, who remains in the Home Office as immigration minister, was supportive of the plans.
James Cleverly is understood to be planning a new approach to tackling mass migration, and will announce a major crackdown on abuses of the visa system.
Mr Jenrick is pushing for the minus salary threshold for new migrants to be lifted from ￡26,200 to the UK average of ￡34,000.
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