Theresa May today binds a future Tory government to a net migration target that it has failed to meet in this parliament.
A day after senior Conservatives warned the home secretary that the prime minister’s “no ifs, no buts” pledge on reducing the annual figure to 100,000 had been “unrealistic” and “a mistake”, Mrs May hits back at cabinet colleagues she accuses of not doing enough.
In an interview with The Times, she says that the issue “touches all government departments”, including education and health.
Mrs May also hints at reintroducing controversial immigration reforms blocked during this parliament. They include plans to make visitors from “high-risk” countries pay a bond before they are allowed into Britain and insisting that people should leave while immigration