The SNP Westminster leader asked the Tory leader to address rumours that he was planning to call a general election today.
The SNP Westminster leader asked the Tory leader to address rumours that he was planning to call a general election today during Prime Minister's Questions.If he called an election today it would likely be at the start of July.It comes after rumours spread on Wednesday morning that Sunak was planning to call a general election today.
Scottish politics Sunak replied: “The Foreign Secretary also said that the levels of legal migration to this country are too high, and that’s what I believe also, which is why it is right that we are taking decisive action to bring the numbers down. “And that plan is working, in the first three months of this year the visas issued are down by 25%, migration is on its way to being returned to more sustainable levels.”
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