A group of Conservative MPs have urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to curb immigration to restore voters’ trust in the party.
In a report to be released on Monday, the 25-strong group, named the New Conservatives, offered a series of proposals to drastically curb the “destabilising” impact of mass migration.
The MPs wrote: “Voters backed Brexit in 2016 expecting immigration would be brought down. We are now in danger of eroding public trust, especially among those who voted for the Conservative Party for the first time in 2019. We need to get immigration falling below 2019 levels as we promised.”
“In order to restore the trust of the nation, migration needs to come down—and fast,” said the group, which includes Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson….