Suella Braverman plans to hike salary requirements for incoming migrants
Home Secretary Suella Braverman reportedly plans to increase the salary requirements for immigrants looking to resettle in the United Kingdom. Home Secretary Suella Braverman plans
Home Secretary Suella Braverman plans
According to the Daily Mail, those looking to move to the UK now have to earn £26,200, which is 20% lower than the median salary of £33,280. As part of a clampdown on migration, the Home Secretary wants to lobby to increase the figure.
Braverman reportedly wants to cut down on the number of unskilled workers and families entering into the UK. She also admits the “points system hasn’t worked.”
A Home Office source told The Sunday Times: “Our points-based system hasn’t really operated in a way that we promised in our manifesto. The prime minister accepts that net migration is too high. He has been working closely with the Home Office on it.”
Suella Braverman set to target migrants by increasing the salary threshold for entry to the UK from £26,200 as Home Office admits ‘points-based system hasn’t worked’
Suella Braverman is set to crackdown on net migration by increasing the salary threshold for entry into the UK after the Home Office conceded that the ‘points-based system has not worked’.
The Home Secretary is said to be drawing up plans for a fresh clampdown on migrants before the next general election with Britain facing a record number of arrivals.
Ms Braverman is said to be lobbying for an increase in the salary threshold as part of a package of measures.
Under current rules, skilled workers are eligible for visas as long as their job in the UK pays £26,200 – which is 20 per cent lower than the median average salary of £33,280.
The Home Secretary is also reportedly going to get tougher on dependants coming to the UK, including the families of unskilled workers.
Admitting that mistakes have been made, a Home Office source told The Sunday Times: ‘Our points-based system hasn’t really operated in a way that we promised in our manifesto. The prime minister accepts that net migration is too high. He has been working closely with the Home Office on it.’
The points-based immigration system was unveiled by former Home Secretary Priti Patel in 2020. The post-Brexit plan was brought in so that EU nationals would receive more equal treatment with people from the rest of the world.
It’s understood that Mrs Braverman wants to announce her shake-up before the Office for National Statistics (ONS) releases the freshest set of immigration data next month, although no agreement has been reached with No10 yet.
The Tory party vowed that ‘overall numbers will come down’ at the 2019 general election but figures published in May showed that net migration had reached a record high of 606,000 last year.
That was far higher than the 488,000 level for 2021 – even though that was upgraded by 91,000 in the latest official publication.
The jump was fuelled by arrivals from outside the EU, largely coming to study or work, as well as to seek refuge from chaos in Ukraine, Afghanistan and Hong Kong.
Although slightly lower than some had feared, the eye-watering level – roughly equivalent to adding the population of Bristol or Glasgow in a single year – sparked a furious political row over the Conservative manifesto pledge that ‘numbers will come down’ from the 226,000 in 2019.
Under David Cameron and Theresa May there was a commitment to bring the long-term net migration figures into the tens of thousands, and one of the selling points for Brexit was ‘taking back control’ of borders.
The Home Office source said it was not clear whether the influx of migrants from Ukraine and Hong Kong had reaches its peak, which left open the possibility that net migration could increase even more.
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