🗣 'She should withdraw this shameful attack on people who have come to Britain for a better life.'
“So students are coming on their student visa, but they’re bringing in family members who can piggyback onto their student visa.
She doubled down on the comments at the party’s conference in Birmingham, telling the Chopper’s Politics podcast that her “ultimate aspiration” would be to get net migration down into the tens of thousands while refusing to set a target for the next election. The comments drew criticism from Lord Johnson, a peer and the brother of the former prime minister, who called the remarks “disappointing”.
“Our higher education sector is one of very few globally competitive industries that we have as a country,” he told Times Radio.“If we want to be a science superpower, which is one of the Government’s objectives, you can kiss goodbye to that completely if we don’t have international students.”
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