Rishi Sunak has vowed to clamp down on immigration and conceded, in the face of growing Tory anger about his past performance, that there is obviously a lot more to do to reduce the record numbers of people immigrating to the UK.
Earlier this week, official figures showed net migration is running at a record high, prompting Boris Johnson, Suella Braverman and other rightwing Conservatives to attack Sunak for failing to honour the government's 2019 Tory manifesto pledge to bring overall migration numbers down.
Speaking to the Mail on Sunday, the prime minister said: There is obviously a lot more to do and that's why we need to take action. I announced previously significant tightening up on the number of dependents that students can bring, which has seen a very striking rise over the past year or two. This represents the single biggest measure of restriction on legal migration that anyone's announced in years. That should give people a sense of my determination to bring these numbers down. As we go over them, as we see other areas of abuse, we won't hesitate to take action and clamp down, he added.
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