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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Yesterday in Parliament podcast.

On Monday, the 12th of May, MPs had their first chance to pass comment on the government's new immigration plans.

It's become a parliamentary tradition like calling order order or the doorkeeper's breaches and ruffles.

Ministers make their big announcement in time for the morning round of news

and then the speaker fulminates that they should have told Parliament first.

The details of the new immigration policy had been reported widely since Sunday morning

so the speaker via his deputy Caroline No, was once again aggrieved.

The Speaker does not understand why the government persists in making announcements in this way

when the ministerial code is absolutely clear.

Well, whatever Minister's reasons for wanting to manage their news,

it did mean MPs had already been able to digest the plans.

Skilled worker visas will now require a degree level qualification.

The dedicated scheme to bring in care workers will close,

there'll be tighter rules on overseas students and tougher English language requirements.

The Home Secretary of Vette Cooper reckoned those alone would bring immigration down

by around 100,000 people a year.

Where we need to go further to restore a sustainable system, we will.

She said she'd laid out.

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

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