Migrants on the Move, or not > Home Sec no hurry to send migrants packing

 

UK Home Secretary walks back ‘guarantee’ that illegal migrants will ‘definitely’ be deported this month

Sep 3, 2025 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams12 Comments

The influx of mostly Muslim migrants into Britain is coming from France, which is an open-door, globalist country under its President Emmanuel Macron, so France has only itself to blame for its migration problems. Both leftist France and Britain have been doing nothing about English Channel illegals. In July 2021, French warships were caught escorting illegal, mostly Muslim migrants to British shores. Then in November 2022,  it was discovered that UK government vessels and French Navy ships were colluding to bring illegal migrants into Britain.

Meanwhile, the UK’s ruling Labour party has been tanking in popularity polls, consistently and over a considerable period of time. Labour is now polling at 20%, while Reform UK leads with 28%. Another notable characteristic of the Labour party is that it tries to boost its popularity by consistently making promises about managing the invasion of illegals via the English Channel. But then Labour reliably reneges on these promises. The government is stringing British citizens along in the hope that no one will wake up and realize that they are in favor of open-door migration, despite the multilayered costs to their own people.

The history of the Labour Party speaks for itself; far-left governments are invariably supportive of open-door migration.  A decade ago, the Guardian wrote this about Labour:

It is easy to forget just how much immigration and asylum haunted Downing Street throughout New Labour’s time in office. Between 1997 and 2010, net annual immigration quadrupled, and the UK population was boosted by more than 2.2 million immigrants, more than twice the population of Birmingham. In Labour’s last term in government, 2005-2010, net migration reached on average 247,000 a year.

Nothing has really changed with the Labour party, except that Britons are waking up to its wiles and rebelling via the Operation Raise the Flag campaign. Yet Labour, by all indications, intends to keep on lying to the British people and telling them what they want to hear, in order to hold on to power.

Home Secretary fails to guarantee France migrant returns will happen this month

by David Lynch, Independent, September 2, 2025:

Yvette Cooper has declined to guarantee that migrants will definitely be sent back across the Channel in September as part of a returns agreement with France.

The first returns are “expected” this month, the Home Secretary has said, but she was cautious not to promise deportations will go ahead during September when speaking to broadcasters.

Ministers are confident they can speed up efforts to empty asylum hotels before their self-imposed deadline of the end of the Parliament, Ms Cooper also signalled.

Ms Cooper said the first deportations under the “one in, one out” pilot scheme with France were expected to take place this month as she addressed MPs on their return to Parliament.

The deal will see the UK send back migrants to France who crossed the Channel, in exchange for those who apply and are approved to come to the UK.

The Home Secretary was asked by Sky News whether she could guarantee returns would begin amid reports the French government may falter on the deal.

She insisted the UK would “continue to work” with France.

Pressed for a guarantee, she replied: “We expect the first returns to take place this month. But I’ve always said from the very beginning on this, it’s a pilot scheme and it needs to build up over time.”

She contrasted her “practical and sensible” approach with that of the previous Conservative government on Rwanda, which “spent £700 million and sent four volunteers after running it for two years”…..

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European Politics > Suella tells it like it is in Britain, and it's not good

 

My favourite British politician ever had to be fired last year because there is no place for truth and transparency in Westminster.

UK: Former Home Secretary says

‘the Islamists, the extremists, and the anti-Semites

are in charge now’

FEB 23, 2024 1:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

At last, the truth is spoken in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain, where cowardice, submission, and willful ignorance are a trendy new lifestyle.

Suella Braverman claims ‘the Islamists are in charge’ of Britain as pressure grows on Keir Starmer over Commons Gaza vote chaos sparked by Speaker ripping up rule book to protect MPs from protesters

by David Wilcock, MailOnline, February 23, 2024:

Suella Braverman waded into the row over Wednesday’s Gaza vote in the Commons today, claiming that ‘the Islamists, the extremists and the anti-Semites are in charge now’.

The former home secretary, a frontrunner to be the next Conservative leader, made the incendiary remarks as the party switched its anger from Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to focus on Keir Starmer’s role in the political chaos.

Sir Lindsay has twice apologised for ripping up the Commons rule book, a move which helped the Labour leader avoid a a damaging revolt over the fighting in the Middle East.

The Speaker argued that he was motivated by anxiety about the safety of MPs from pro-Palestinian protesters, rather than partisan concerns. Extremist sympathisers projected the phrase ‘from the river to the sea’ – seen as anti-Semitic – onto the Elizabeth Tower during the debate as thousands of protesters gathered outside Parliament.

But writing in the Telegraph this morning Ms Braverman said: ‘I may have been sacked because I spoke out against the appeasement of Islamists, but I would do it again because we need to wake up to what we are sleep-walking into: a ghettoised society where free expression and British values are diluted. Where sharia law, the Islamist mob and anti-Semites take over communities.

‘We need to overcome the fear of being labelled Islamophobic and speak truthfully.’

However, Ms Braverman faced criticism over her time in the Home Office from Lord Mann, the government’s independent adviser on anti-Semitism. He tweeted: ‘As Home Secretary, Stella Braverman ignored the advice I provided on how to tackle anti-Semitism and issues for her department. In fact she never even bothered to read them. Her inaction in office is a part of the problem.’

And her successor James Cleverly said he did not ‘always agree with everything’ she said.

The Home Secretary told LBC: ‘She’s clearly expressing frustrations that she’s felt whilst she was in this role.

‘And I understand that. And she and I remain close friends – that doesn’t mean to say I always agree with everything she’s saying.

‘But it is absolutely the case that we must make sure that we crack down on extremist behaviour, it’s absolutely the case that we must not let our democracy be distorted through fear or intimidation.’…

It is absolutely the case that it already has happened, Min. Cleverly. The question now is, can you get it back to a real democracy?

 

European Politics > Suella Out, Cameron In British Government

In my humble opinion, Suella Braverman was the most honest, sincere, and capable Home Secretary in decades. Sunak, however, never really supported her, revealing a great weakness in his character. Suella is right to jump ship at this time, if, indeed, she deliberately got herself fired. 

Former U.K. PM David Cameron back in government,

Suella out, as Sunak shuffles cabinet

By Jill Lawless  The Associated Press

Posted November 13, 2023  6:05 am

Former British Prime Minister David Cameron made a shock return to high office on Monday, becoming foreign secretary in a major shakeup of the Conservative government that also saw the firing of divisive Home Secretary Suella Braverman.

Cameron, who led the U.K. government between 2010 and 2016, was appointed by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a Cabinet shuffle in which he sacked Braverman, a divisive figure who drew anger for accusing police of being too lenient with pro-Palestinian protesters.

She was replaced by James Cleverly, who had been foreign secretary.

Cameron’s appointment came as a surprise to seasoned politics-watchers. It’s rare for a non-lawmaker to take a senior government post, and it has been decades since a former prime minister held a Cabinet job.

The government said Cameron will be appointed to Parliament’s unelected upper chamber, the House of Lords. The last foreign secretary to serve in the Lords, rather than the elected House of Commons, was Peter Carrington, who was part of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government in the 1980s.

Cameron said Britain was “facing a daunting set of international challenges, including the war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East.”

“While I have been out of front-line politics for the last seven years, I hope that my experience — as Conservative leader for 11 years and prime minister for six — will assist me in helping the prime minister to meet these vital challenges,” he said in a statement.

His appointment brings back to government a leader brought down by Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. Cameron called the 2016 EU membership referendum, confident the country would vote to stay in the bloc. He resigned the day after voters opted to leave.

Sunak was a strong backer of the winning “leave” side in the referendum. Cameron’s return, and Braverman’s sacking, are likely to infuriate the Conservative Party’s right wing and inflame tensions in the party that Sunak has sought to soothe.

Prominent right-wing lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg said sacking Braverman was “a mistake because Suella understood what the British voter thought and was trying to do something about it.”

Sunak had been under growing pressure to fire Braverman — a hard-liner popular with the authoritarian wing of the governing Conservative Party — from one of the most senior jobs in government, responsible for handling immigration and policing.

In a highly unusual attack on the police last week, Braverman said London’s police force was ignoring lawbreaking by “pro-Palestinian mobs.” She described demonstrators calling for a cease-fire in Gaza as “hate marchers.”

On Saturday, far-right protesters scuffled with police and tried to confront a large pro-Palestinian march by hundreds of thousands through the streets of London. Critics accused Braverman of helping to inflame tensions.

Last week Braverman wrote an article for the Times of London in which she said police “play favorites when it comes to protesters” and acted more leniently toward pro-Palestinian demonstrators and Black Lives Matter supporters than toward right-wing protesters or soccer hooligans.

The article was not approved in advance by the prime minister’s office, as would usually be the case.

Braverman said Monday that “it has been the greatest privilege of my life to serve as home secretary,” adding that she would “have more to say in due course.”

Braverman, a 43-year-old lawyer, has become a leader of the party’s populist wing by advocating ever-tougher curbs on migration and a war on human rights protections, liberal social values and what she has called the “tofu-eating wokerati.”

Last month she called migration a “hurricane” that would bring “millions more immigrants to these shores, uncontrolled and unmanageable.”

As home secretary Braverman championed the government’s stalled plan to send asylum-seekers who arrive in Britain in boats on a one-way trip to Rwanda. A U.K. Supreme Court ruling on whether the policy is legal is due on Wednesday.

Critics say Braverman has been building her profile to position herself for a party leadership contest that could come if the Conservatives lose power in an election expected next year.

The bold changes are an attempt by Sunak to reset his faltering government. The Conservatives have been in power for 13 years, but opinion polls for months have put them 15 to 20 points behind Labour amid a stagnating economy, persistently high inflation, an overstretched health care system and a wave of public sector strikes.

Last month Sunak tried to paint his government as a force of change, saying he would break the “30-year status quo” that includes the governments of Cameron and other Conservative predecessors.

“A few weeks ago, Rishi Sunak said David Cameron was part of a failed status quo. Now he’s bringing him back as his life raft,” said Labour lawmaker Pat McFadden. “This puts to bed the prime minister’s laughable claim to offer change from 13 years of Tory failure.”

European Politics > Suella off to a great start - burglars look-out; Liz Truss - Huge Zionist!

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Police will attend EVERY burglary: All 43 chief constables

in England and Wales sign landmark agreement

By EXCLUSIVE BY REBECCA CAMBER, CRIME AND SECURITY EDITOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL

PUBLISHED: 18:49 EDT, 4 October 2022

Police chiefs have agreed for the first time to send an officer to every burgled home. 

The historic move commits them always to make a visit, regardless of the location and what has been stolen. 

Signed by all 43 chief constables in England and Wales, the landmark deal comes a day after it emerged that an average of 774 burglaries go unsolved every day. 

Martin Hewitt of the National Police Chiefs’ Council says more cases should now reach court – the prosecution rate is as low as 1.7 per cent in some areas. 

‘Wherever you live in England and Wales you can be confident the police will attend if you experience the invasion of a home burglary,’ he adds. 

‘This should see more burglaries being solved and more offenders prosecuted.’ Writing in tomorrow's Daily Mail, Mr Hewitt declares: ‘We want to give people the peace of mind of knowing if you experience that invasion, the police will come, find all possible evidence and make every effort to catch those responsible. 

‘That’s a critical part of the contract between the police and public.’ 

The historic commitment is being seen as a watershed moment for policing because forces had been setting their own priorities, which can differ wildly around the country. 

Each home burglary will be attended by a police officer, all 43 chief constables of England and Wales

have said in a landmark agreement

The number of criminals being prosecuted has more than halved and the number found guilty is even lower

– just 7,887 burglars were convicted last year

Today the Mail revealed that 1.76million burglaries were reported across England and Wales over the past five years – but 1.41million of the cases were closed without a suspect being identified. 

The number of criminals being prosecuted has more than halved and the number found guilty is even lower – just 7,887 burglars were convicted last year. Until recently police chiefs had insisted there was no evidence that having an officer attend resulted in more offenders being caught. 

THREE IN FOUR WANT OFFICERS TO VISIT VICTIMS 

Three quarters of Britons believe that police should visit burglary victims, according to a Daily Mail poll. 

It also found that 96 per cent of over-55s think crime is not taken seriously enough by forces. The research, which was carried out by Churchill home insurance, shows how home break-ins can shatter lives. 

'Home break ins can shatter lives'

As many as 97 per cent of victims say a raid has an affect on their everyday activities, with 37 per cent saying it has a huge impact. More than a third of those targeted said they felt violated by the experience. 

A quarter were left feeling scared or reported having trouble sleeping. 

More than one in six felt depressed and 16 per cent suffered anxiety or panic attacks. In the worst cases – 6 per cent of the total – the victims needed to see a doctor, counsellor, or therapist. The poll found 63 per cent feared the cost of living crisis would make burglaries more likely. 

Sarah Khan, head of Churchill home insurance, said: ‘The psychological scars of the victims of burglary are often overlooked. 

‘Burglars who violate people’s homes can leave people with significant emotional trauma for many years.’

But a new ‘rapid evidence assessment’ by the College of Policing overturned the established thinking. The report presented at a meeting of police chiefs on September 30 concluded that visiting crime scenes could provide investigative opportunities to solve the case, reassure victims and prevent future offences. 

It followed a devastating audit in August by His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary Andy Cooke which revealed victims were being let down and called for officers to attend every domestic raid. 

Yesterday Mr Cooke said: ‘Back in August we published a report which said the police response to burglary must improve. Burglary is an invasive crime that strikes at the heart of how safe we feel in our homes. Yet too many victims may not see a single officer – as I have said previously, that can’t be right. 

‘Today’s announcement shows that police leaders have started to act on our findings. This is a positive step forwards in solving more burglaries and making sure victims get the service they deserve.’ 

Mr Hewitt pointed out that the number of burglaries was at an all-time low – ‘down 51 per cent over the past decade due to increased investment by police and partners in preventing them happening’. 

According to the NPCC, chief constables will work to ensure the new commitment is implemented as soon as practically possible. 

Chief Constable Andy Marsh, chief executive of the College of Policing: ‘Officers across the country want to be locking up criminals and keeping communities safe. Our standards will help bring consistency to the police’s response, enable them to get the basics right and deliver what the public expect.’ 

Police chiefs will now ask Home Secretary Suella Braverman for extra cash to ‘focus more resources’ on burglaries. 

Former victims’ commissioner Vera Baird said: ‘This is a big step forward for victims and for restoring public confidence in the police. They need quick reassurance that police care about their safety and there still is effective law and order when their personal security has been violated.’

Last week chief constables from across the country met. Reducing crime and building public confidence were top of our agenda. 

At that meeting we took an important collective decision – to attend all home burglaries. Some forces already do this. Others attend where it has been established there are evidential lines of enquiry or where victims are vulnerable or elderly. 

Some police chiefs have struggled to achieve attendance at all burglaries with limited resources and balancing an increase in complex and highly harmful crimes. But burglary is invasive and can be deeply traumatic. 

Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), said it was 'critical' to 'deal with' issues surrounding vetting and professional standards proceedings in policing.

We want to give people the peace of mind of knowing if you experience that invasion, the police will come, find all possible evidence and make every effort to catch those responsible. That’s a critical part of the contract between the police and public. 

We’re also asking for the Home Secretary’s help so police chiefs can focus more resources on solving crime and raising confidence. Firstly, we’re asking government to seriously take on the vast widening of the policing mission. We want to focus more on solving crime. The public want the same. And so do politicians. 

But a National Audit Office report in 2018 showed that 64 per cent of emergency calls to the police were not about crime. Some are entirely legitimate police activity, but a substantial proportion see police stepping into health and social work because of an absence of other services. 

We have been discussing this for years and there has been no meaningful change – there needs to be for us to improve crime rates. Secondly, we want to see a review of crime recording processes. Complying with the process is an industry in policing that takes officers away from neighbourhood policing and the subsequent statistics present a misleading picture to the public about the reality of crime. Right now, for crime recording purposes a burglary of someone’s family home is treated the same as the loss of a spade from a shed. There must be a better way. 

Thirdly, we want to work across the policing system and with government to agree the core police services that should be delivered to a consistent standard across the country – with evidence and public priorities at the heart of our decision-making. We don’t currently have this shared view of our core services and as a result, priorities can change with the wind. With it, we can hold fast to an agreed mission the public can understand and support.

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UK PM: I’m a ‘huge Zionist,’ want to move embassy to Jerusalem

October 6, 2022

UK PM: I’m a ‘huge Zionist,’ want to move embassy to JerusalemPrime Minister Yair Lapid meets with

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, September 21, 2022, Photo: Avi Ohayon (GPO)

Speaking at pro-Israel conference, Liz Truss says that the UK and its allies will ‘never allow’ Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.

By Lauren Marcus, 

World Israel News

New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss pledged “wholehearted” support for the Jewish State during a speech at the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) conference on Monday.

“I am so pleased to be here for the first time at the CFI event as your prime minister,” Truss was quoted as saying by the Jewish Chronicle.

“As you know I am a huge Zionist, I am a huge supporter of Israel, and I know that we can take the UK-Israel relationship from strength to strength.”

“In this world – where we are facing threats from authoritarian regimes who don’t believe in freedom and democracy – two free democracies, the UK and Israel, need to stand shoulder to shoulder and we will be even closer in the future,” she said.

Truss stressed that her country’s support for Israel is “absolute” and “wholehearted,” while adding that the UK and its allies would ensure that Iran “will never…get a nuclear weapon.”

During a meeting with Prime Minister Yair Lapid last month, Truss mentioned that the UK is weighing moving its embassy – which is currently located in Tel Aviv – to Jerusalem.

Referencing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Truss vowed to “put a stop” to local councils and public institutions adopting anti-Israel policies.

Other high-ranking UK government officials expressed their approval of the potential embassy move.

Health Minister Robert Jenrick said he was “delighted” by Truss’ proposal that the embassy be relocated to Israel’s capital city.

“We have a site in Jerusalem there waiting to go,” he was quoted by JC as saying.

“It is time we took responsibility and built that Embassy and recognized that the true capital of the State of Israel is obviously Jerusalem.”

European Politics > The UK's new Home Secretary is Awesome

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Whether she is allowed to accomplish what she is setting out to do is a good question. But she seems to be heading in the right direction on so many fronts. God bless her. The woke crowd is going to come after her like a plague of banshees.

I’ll take dramatic action to stop Channel migrant crisis after

30,000 boats reached UK this year, says Suella Braverman

Kate Ferguson, The Sun

20:00, 1 Oct 2022

NEW Home Secretary Suella Braverman last night admitted the Channel migrants crisis is “out of control”.

More than 30,000 have arrived in dinghies on our shores this year — ten times the total in 2018.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has admitted the channel migrants crisis is 'out of control'

More than 30,000 migrants have arrived on our shores by dinghies this year - ten times the total in 2018

But Ms Braverman has vowed to “take dramatic action” and change controversial laws to stop illegal immigrants playing the system.

Top of her list is reforming the Modern Slavery Act so it is easier to boot out Channel migrants and foreign criminals.

In her first interview since getting the top Cabinet job, she also admitted some police forces have been “captured” by woke groups and “pander to political correctness”.

She vowed to cut immigration numbers despite moves by new PM Liz Truss to let more high-skilled foreigners into Britain to boost growth.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun on Sunday on the eve of Tory Party conference in Birmingham, she promised to get tough on law and order.

Ms Braverman said: “There’s a crisis on the Channel and it’s been going on for far too long. There have been huge attempts to try and stop the problem and I feel that we are at a stage now where we need to take dramatic action.

“So the problem has gone out of control for a variety of reasons.”

She said the problem has spiralled for a “variety of reasons”, including the Modern Slavery Act, brought in by Theresa May to stop exploitation, which is being abused.

Ms Braverman added: “What’s happened is that the aims and the structure of that legislation have been completely distorted. Now what we are seeing is a majority of people coming here from Albania — some 80 per cent — of the people coming across on small boats are claiming to be victims of modern slavery.

“That’s regardless of the fact that they may have paid tens of thousands of pounds for the privilege of being a so-called modern slave. That’s also regardless of the fact that they will have actively sought to come to the UK through an illegal, illicit and dangerous method. So it’s being abused.”

She also warned that foreign paedophiles, murderers and other convicted criminals are abusing the law to block their deportation.

Ms Braverman said: “Unfortunately, it’s a really low bar that you have to cross to be considered to be a victim of modern slavery, that is what is gumming up the system at the moment.

A group of migrants walk ashore in Dungeness, Kent, after being intercepted by a lifeboat on August 25, 2022. Credit: PA

Modern slavery

“And what’s even worse about modern slavery, and the way it’s being applied at the moment, is that we’re getting some egregious cases, which make my blood boil in terms of how it’s being abused.

“We are getting instances where convicted paedophiles, convicted drug dealers, convicted murderers, who served their sentences in English jails — at the end of their sentence, we want to deport them because they are considered to be foreign national offenders.

“What do they do? They claim modern slavery.”

She told of a convicted paedo from Pakistan, jailed here for ten years, who has still not been kicked out of the country because of the Modern Slavery Act.

Ms Braverman added: “That, I cannot emphasise enough, is plaguing our system, stopping the legitimate removal from our country of serious criminals, putting the safety of British people at risk, undermining the generosity of the British people . . . and making a mockery of our country and our sovereignty — and this has to stop.”

Ms Braverman hinted that she will reform the Act to increase the evidential threshold and crack down on people suddenly claiming to be modern slaves after years of living here carefree.

She is expected to flesh out the plans later this week.

Under her predecessor Priti Patel, Britain signed a deal to send Channel migrants to Rwanda in a bid to deter crossings. But the plan was dealt a blow earlier this year when Euro judges in Strasbourg blocked the first flight.

Rwanda’s Hope Hostel — which was meant to house the migrants — stands empty and the policy is bogged down in a High Court battle. 

Ms Braverman lashed Euro judges for intervening. And she warned Britain could quit the European Convention on Human Rights or come up with a new British Bill of Rights to boot foreign judges out of UK cases.

She fumed: “It was thwarted because, frankly, of an interventionist politicised court in Strasbourg.

“And a decision taken . . . where there was no UK representation, behind closed doors, and in a very mysterious way, frankly. We really need to review and look at our relationship with Strasbourg.”

In the meantime, the UK is still committed to the Rwanda deal and is looking to sign similar agreements in other countries, such as Albania.

Ms Braverman, who used to live in France and speaks the language fluently, also signalled a reset as she vowed to work closely with Paris on tackling Channel migrants.

“We do have a common and shared mission”, she said as he revealed she plans to visit France shortly.

On policing, she took aim at woke cops who spend more time virtue signalling than catching thieves and called for a return to “old school, common sense policing”.

Last week, she slapped down Sussex Police after the force used Twitter to defend a transgender paedo from being “misgendered” by the public. She said: “There’s been, in some parts of our policing sector, a tendency to pander to political correctness, a capture by lobby groups, and a lack of courage to adopt old school policing, or what I like to call common sense policing.”

The Twitter spat was the “tip of the iceberg”, she warned.

Cops spend too much time engaging in “gesture” politics like taking the knee and dancing at Pride events, she added. I want to encourage the police to get back to basics.

The Home Secretary stressed: “I think that is all the wrong focus. I want to encourage the police to get back to basics, get back to investigating every burglary, making sure that antisocial behaviour in our communities, car theft, drugs, graffiti, vandalism, that all that is jumped on instantly. Those crimes have been forgotten.”

Ms Braverman is also looking at lifting the requirement for some officers to have a degree before entering the force so those with “street smarts” are snapped up.

On immigration, she insisted the Government is still committed to cutting numbers despite Ms Truss’s dash for growth.

The Sun on Sunday revealed last week that the PM is planning to create new routes for foreign workers to move to Britain to kick-start growth.

The controversial move sparked a Cabinet row amid fears it would open the floodgates to cheap foreign labour and uncontrolled numbers.

But Ms Braverman moved to calm jitters that this growth drive will see promises to cut net migration torn up.

The 2019 Tory manifesto pledge to get numbers down is an aim “shared by the Prime Minister and myself and everyone around the Cabinet table”, she insisted.

And she hinted any loosening of immigration rules for high skilled workers will come with moves to crack down on others coming to the UK.

The Home Sec said: “What we've got is too many low skilled workers coming into this country. 

“We've also got a very high number of students coming into this country and we've got a really high number of dependents. 

“So students are coming on their student visa, but they're bringing in family members who can piggyback onto their student visa. Those people are coming here, they're not necessarily working or they're working in low-skilled jobs, and they're not contributing to growing our economy.”

She added: “We want people with high skills, we want people with tech qualifications…What we don't want is a very steady stream of cheap foreign labour.”

Meanwhile, she said social media bosses must “start taking responsibility” and protect users online. She spoke out after a coroner ruled disturbing online content contributed to the death of schoolgirl Molly Russell.

I like this woman! 

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