Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has stressed the need to curb legal immigration, saying it can lead to “unmanageable pressures” on communities when it is “too high and too fast.”
The government has been under pressure to cut not only illegal immigration but also legal migration numbers.
Writing in The Telegraph, Sunak reaffirmed his determination to stop illegal immigration in the English Channel—one of the top five priorities of his premiership—saying, “We cannot allow people to come here illegally at the whim of criminal gangs.”
He went on to say: “But it’s not just a question of legality. We can’t have uncontrolled legal migration either. That’s unfair too….