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Order! Order.

Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4, for Monday the 12th of May,

when the Home Secretary set out a plan to control immigration.

How we will restore control, fairness and order to the system, how we will continue to bring

net migration down and how we will turn the page on the chaos and failure of the past.

There's anger over changes to disability payments.

I cannot support any cuts that worsen inequalities in places like Bradford.

And what will the trade agreement with the United States mean for the one part of the UK

that has to follow some EU rules?

Businesses in Northern Ireland have been left in the dark too long by the lack of detail

from last week's announcement.

The Prime Minister used an early morning news conference in Downing Street to announce by the lack of detail from last week's announcement.

The Prime Minister used an early morning news conference in Downing Street to announce changes to the immigration system.

He said high levels of immigration in recent years

had done incalculable damage

and Britain risked becoming an island of strangers.

A few hours later, the Home Secretary of Etc, made a statement in the Commons about the plans to cut legal immigration, by making it harder for people to settle in the UK and by tightening English language requirements.

Yvette Cooper said net migration had reached a record high of more than 900,000 people under the last Conservative government.

It was the consequence of specific government choices made from 2020 onwards,

including introducing what was effectively a free market experiment on immigration,

encouraging employers to recruit from abroad,

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