Call for new migrant freeze: UK ‘needs five-year ban on unskilled workers to hit targets’
THERESA May is being urged to adopt a five-year freeze on unskilled migrants and impose a 50,000-a-year cap on all new arrivals.
By DAVID MADDOX
Express.co.uk
Mon, Apr 10, 2017
Brexit group Leave Means Leave says the measures will help migration back to levels last seen in the 1990s and finally hit the failed Tory target of tens of thousands.
The group, backed by former Cabinet ministers as well as 15 Tory MPs, says Brexit provides a “golden opportunity” to stem immigration at last.
It is particularly concerned about unskilled labour which pressure group Migration Watch claims makes up 80 per cent of existing EU incomers.
The blueprint for “fair” immigration has been drawn up by former UKIP leadership candidate Steven Woolfe.
He wants to see the introduction of a “British working visa system” and have Parliament vote each year on a fi gure for net migration.
Many pro-Brexit supporters were angered last week when the Prime Minister hinted that free movement from the EU could continue for years into an “implementation period” after leaving in 2019.
In a speech introducing his findings today Mr Woolfe, now an independent, says Britain needs an immigration system that is “fair in its outlook, flexible in practice and forward-thinking for our economy.
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