Home Secretary Suella Braverman has said more needs to be done to reduce legal migration and said there was “no good reason” why Britain could not train up a home-grown workforce of lorry drivers and fruit pickers and reduce the country’s overall need for immigrant workers.
Giving a keynote speech at the National Conservatism conference in London on Monday, Braverman said, “While illegal migration is rightly our priority given the acute challenges that we face in the Channel, we must not lose sight of the importance of controlling legal migration as well.”
The Conservative Party manifesto at the 2019 general election promised to control immigration and said “overall numbers will come down.”…