Are the Tories too little to late on migration?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:13.0 | Hello, welcome to Coffee House Shots. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and Patrick Finn. |
| 0:21.0 | Katie, yesterday there was a big announcement in the House of Commons, James Cleverly, |
| 0:25.6 | the New Home Secretary announced a big package in measures changing the visa system |
| 0:29.8 | and how you can come to this country. |
| 0:31.3 | He's then flyed off to Rwanda to talk about the new |
| 0:34.1 | treaty that's going to be agreed there. Where are we on day two of |
| 0:37.7 | migration week? To start with legal migration you had James Clavly yesterday as we talked about in advance |
| 0:44.3 | laying out various measures the government is taking to try to reduce legal |
| 0:48.4 | migration taken together the measures which include raising the minimum threshold salary for |
| 0:54.6 | school workers coming here to just over 38,000 making it so NHS health workers |
| 1:00.9 | cannot bring dependents across with them and also raising the |
| 1:05.4 | threshold when it comes to you know bringing a partner from abroad over here. |
| 1:10.5 | You put them all together and if you have measures and they think it will reduce net migration by 300,000. |
| 1:17.6 | As for when exactly that will happen, I think one of the problems of this is will it be reduced by that head of the next election? |
| 1:24.8 | That seems unlikely. And speaking to ministers when it comes to these measures, |
| 1:29.9 | I think there is a feeling that it does not get them out of the woods in the sense |
| 1:32.8 | it's going to make this big dent in that migration whereby they can look at that |
| 1:36.0 | 2019 manifesto commitment and say we achieved it it's gone down but it might in a way get them to a point where they at least have |
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