Rishi Sunak goes into the week on the defensive over legal migration. After figures late last week revealed net migration hit a record 750,000 in the year to December 2022, the Prime Minister is under pressure from his own side to act. This afternoon James Cleverly will address the House where he is expected to lay out a series of proposals the government is considering.
As is becoming a trend, Sunak’s former home secretary Suella Braverman has taken the opportunity to accuse her old boss of doing too little. Right on cue, today’s Telegraph reports that it has seen ‘a copy of the pact’ between Braverman and Sunak when she agreed to back him for leader last year. Allies of the former home secretary accuse Sunak of reneging on an agreement to raise the minimum salary for skilled foreign workers from £26,000 to £40,000.
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