Theresa May, the Home Secretary, will vow to cut immigration,
arguing that current levels are hitting schools, hospitals and housing
and driving down wages.
Her tough stance comes after net annual migration hit 330,000, the
highest level on record, which has wrecked David Cameron’s promise to
cut it to tens of thousands.
She will tell the Tory conference: “There is no case, in the national
interest, for immigration of the scale we have experienced over the
last decade.”
Ms May will say that people on the “extremes” of the debate conflate
refugees with economic migrants. “There are millions of people in poorer
countries who would love to live in Britain, and there is a limit to
the amount of immigration any country can and should take.”
“When immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast,
it’s impossible to build a cohesive society. It’s difficult for schools
and hospitals and core infrastructure like housing and transport to
cope. And we know that for people in low-paid jobs, wages are forced
down even further while some people are forced out of work altogether.”
She will cite research which, she will say, concludes that “at best
the net economic and fiscal effect of high immigration is close to
zero”.
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