Government has no grip on immigration – Cooper
BBC says Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has just spoken in the Commons about the migration figures, calling them “extraordinary”.
Cooper said the government’s doubling of work visas since the pandemic “shows the Conservatives have no plan and no grip on immigration”.
She questioned why the asylum backlog was at a record high and how net migration could be “more than twice the level that ministers were aiming for”.
Cooper then took aim at Home Secretary Suella Braverman, asking where she was today and if she had gone to ground: “What is the point of her,” she asked.
In an earlier statement, Cooper said “Labour will put skills and fairness at the heart of the immigration system.”
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