Robert Jenrick Calls for Cap on Net Immigration

Former immigration minister Robert Jenrick has called for a cap on net immigration, claiming a “far more restrictive system” is needed. Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Jenrick says the government’s recently-passed Rwanda Bill will soon “join the graveyard of policies” that failed to tackle illegal migration, but called legal migration “a bigger scandal.” He said: “As offensive and dangerous as illegal migration is, the bigger scandal is the story of legal migration because the numbers involved are so much greater. “Last year, there were about 30,000 illegal small boat arrivals, but this was dwarfed by the 1.2 million people who arrived here perfectly legally.”...