The former minister said integration is “impossible” with the current level of immigration, and that the Rwanda bill is unlikely to work.
The immigration reforms announced this week must take effect immediately to prevent a “fire sale of visa applications,” former immigration minister Robert Jenrick said on Friday.
Mr. Jenrick, who resigned from Cabinet on Wednesday over the Rwanda bill, also insisted that the bill won’t end the merry-go-round of legal challenges that prevented the swift removal of new illegal immigrants.
The student dependant visa route, which Home Secretary James Cleverly said has allowed 153,000 people into the UK in the year-ending September 2023, will be removed next year. Mr. Cleverly said the new measures he announced on Monday would bring the total reduction to 300,000.
However, Mr. Jenrick suggested the government is not working fast enough to get the proposals approved by Parliament.
“The reforms…
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