Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to give a direct answer to GB News viewers after Christopher Hope grilled him on his refusal to set a net migration cap.
Addressing the nation in a press conference on Labour's new migration plan, the Prime Minister claimed that the "one nation experiment" on "open borders" is "over".
Starmer declared: "Make no mistake, this plan means migration will fall. That is a promise. But I want to be very clear on this.
"If we do need to take further steps, if we do need to do more to release pressure on housing and our public services then mark my words, we will. We will finally honour what take back control meant."
Sir Keir Starmer was grilled by Christopher Hope on whether the Labour Government will implement a migration cap
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Turning to the press for questions, Starmer was grilled by GB News's Christopher Hope on whether GB News viewers "should think you're going to succeed" after "three failed immigration acts" since 2014.
Starmer assured Christopher: "The difference here it this is the most comprehensive plan that has been put forward. It's been forged to end the Tory wide open borders experiment that we have had, and you're right about that.
"It looks at all routes and it's comprehensive, and it does the hard yards of linking skills and business to what we need to do with the economy."
Claiming that the new plan is "not a narrow look at the numbers", Starmer stated that he is "making clear" that reducing migration is "what he wants to do".
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Keir Starmer told GB News viewers that that reducing migration is 'not a narrow look at the numbers'
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Highlighting his "promise" to GB News viewers, Starmer explained: "It's not a narrow look just at the numbers, it puts them in their proper context on the question, which we do want to significantly reduce migration, and I'm absolutely making clear that's what it will do.
"And that if we need to go further, we will."
Dismissing calls for an exact figure on a migration cap, Starmer claimed that it is not "sensible" to give Britons an exact figure.
He said: "I don't think it's sensible to put a hard edged cap on it. That has been done in one form or another for the best part of ten years by different prime ministers.
The Labour leader claimed that the 'one nation experiment' on 'open borders' is 'over'
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"The only thing that links those prime ministers and the various caps or quotas or limits they put in place is every single one of them failed."
Starmer concluded: "And therefore, going down the failed route is not a sensible way for me. As with everything that I do, it's the serious, pragmatic, looking at the things that will actually make a material difference."
In his announcement to the nation, the Labour leader also claimed: "I am promising it will fall significantly and I do want to get it down by the end of this parliament significantly.
"That is what this plan is intended to achieve. The complete opposite of what you saw in the last four years."
