Conservatives Clash Over Immigration Policy
Channel: Con Troversial
Date: 2024-04-07

so the question is why is it
because
we just care more about
importing cheap labour
to staff the NHS and so
the other departments are
like well
if you do this
we're not getting enough
foreign students
we're not gonna have enough
of an economic boost
is that what's happening
that is
effectively the wall of the
character of the resistance
I came up against so uh
the economic departments
mainly the Treasury
would be very resistant
to my proposals to cut uh
migration so for example
on um workers
you know my
my proposal for over a year
was we need to raise salary
threshold it was 20
25,000 that's below
the average salary
in the UK
it should have been
I put forward 40,000 uh
um there was a huge
mountain of resistance
that I was met with
from the um
the Treasury itself am I uh
you know that was reported
um at the time
that I was having to chase
the Chancellor of
the extract of Jeremy
Hunt down the corridor in