Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says the government’s immigration reforms will not include a target number for net migration, saying “we are not taking that approach”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We need to see a substantial reduction in net migration and we're setting out plans in order
00:06to do that. We obviously had repeated targets and broken promises from the Conservatives
00:13that just failed and really undermined credibility in the whole system. So we're not going to do that,
00:17we're not taking that approach. What we are doing is setting out step by step the actions that we'll
00:23take both on visa controls but also on workforce strategies and training in the UK in order to
00:29bring net migration substantially down. For generations people have come to the UK to set
00:35up businesses, to work in our NHS, to do some of the most difficult jobs in our economy. Migration
00:41will always be important to us as an outward looking trading country but that's exactly why
00:47it needs to be controlled and managed so that the system is fair. What we saw was this fourfold
00:54increase in net migration in the space of just four years at the same time as training in
01:00the UK was cut. I think everyone understands that is a system that is failing and that's
01:06why what we're doing is restoring control and order so that we can recognise that migration
01:11will always matter but it needs to be controlled and managed.