Home Secretary admits lack of confidence in migration system

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The Home Secretary has admitted there is "an issue with confidence in the immigration system and frankly, quite understandably". It comes as more than 1,100 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel on Saturday, the highest number recorded so far in 2025.   Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I think there's a particular issue about confidence in the immigration system and really

00:03frankly quite understandably because the way in which those numbers shot up in such a short period

00:09of time, I mean I've described this as I think this really was a sort of free market experiment

00:16in which effectively employers were encouraged to recruit from abroad including being given a

00:2120% discount on the wages that they were able to pay for people who they recruited from abroad

00:26below the going rate which makes no sense at all because that applied to shortage occupations

00:32where it may well have been that in those shortage occupations part of the answer

00:36to preventing them being shortage occupations would be to actually pay people properly and

00:40to increase pay rather than to have a 20% discount.

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