Robert Jenrick advocates for a 1 net immigration ceiling.

Robert Jenrick advocates for a net immigration ceiling.

Former immigration minister Robert Jenrick has called for curbs on net immigration, arguing that a “much more restrictive system” is needed.

In The Sunday Mr. Jenrick says the government’s recently passed Rwandan law will soon “join the graveyard of politicians” who have failed to tackle illegal migration but labeled legal migration a “bigger scandal”.

He said: “As offensive and dangerous as illegal migration is, the bigger scandal is the story of legal migration because the numbers involved are so much bigger.

The only way politicians can look voters in the eye and guarantee they can deliver on their promises to reduce net migration is to introduce a cap to act as a democratic lock on the numbers.

Robert Jenrick

“About 30,000 illegal small boats came last year, but this has been dwarfed by the 1.2 million people who have arrived here completely legally.”

According to Jenrick, net migration needs to be brought back to the “tens of thousands”.

“We need to create a much tougher system that establishes the UK as the grammar school of the Western world, with a focus on attracting high-skilled, high-wage migrants who will be net contributors to the economy,” he said.

“The only way politicians can look voters in the eye and guarantee they can deliver on their promises to reduce net migration is to introduce a cap to act as a democratic lock on the numbers.”

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He added that the cap “should be voted on by all MPs in the migration budget debate, along with the anticipated impacts of immigration on housing, infrastructure, and public services”.

Jenrick resigned as immigration minister in December in protest at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s deportation plan from Rwanda, saying it would not act as a strong enough deterrent to stop asylum seekers arriving in small boats.

Home Secretary Chris Philp refused to set a cap on net immigration when asked to respond to Mr Jenrick’s demand.

Mr Philp told the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg: “I’m not in a position to sit here today and advocate a hard ceiling. What I can say, however, is that we are taking measures that have been enacted and are now being implemented to reduce legal migration by around 300,000 a year. And that with a significant increase in wages. It is by reducing the number of dependents who can come with migrants.

“I think the British public wants us to control and significantly reduce migration, both legal and illegal.

Mr. Philp also said the government was “committed to substantially reducing legal migration”.

He added: “We don’t think it’s right to have large-scale low-skilled migration. We want a much smaller number of highly skilled migrants.”

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