Tory Right Criticise Sunak’s ‘Weakness’ Over Family Visa Climbdown

Published on December 23, 2023

Right-wing Tory MPs have criticised the government’s watering down of plans to hike the earnings threshold for Britons bringing family members to the UK as a “regrettable sign of weakness.” Ministers rowed back on under-fire plans to imminently raise the minimum salary requirement to £38,700. The government on Thursday quietly announced the threshold would first be raised to £29,000 in the spring, and then increased in “incremental stages,” without setting out a timetable. The climbdown has angered hardline Conservative MPs in favour of tighter immigration controls. David Jones, deputy chairman of the right-wing European Research Group, told the PA news agency on Friday: “The latest net migration figures very starkly showed the extent of the crisis we face. Increasing the threshold was absolutely necessary to address that crisis....

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