Migration is too high: Sunak vows to target ‘abuses of the system’

Migration is too high: Sunak vows to target ‘abuses of the system’
Georgia Pearce

By Georgia Pearce


Published: 27/11/2023

- 09:08

Updated: 27/11/2023

- 10:21

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has today vowed to crack down on 'abusers' of the migrant system in the UK, as he spoke to media outside the Global Investment Summit at Hampton Court Palace.

Sunak stated: "I'm very clear that the levels of net migration are too high. They need to come down to more sustainable levels, and it's encouraging that the Office for National Statistics last week did say that the numbers are already slowing, but we need to do more.

"I've already taken action to tighten the number of dependents that students can bring when they come and study here, we'd seen a very sharp rise in those numbers. And that measure that I took represents the single biggest measure to bring down legal migration that anyone's ever taken.

"But of course, as we need to do more, we'll look at that and where there are abuses of the system, we will of course act on that, because the levels do need to come down, they are too high."

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