A five-point package of measures will deliver the biggest reduction in net migration, the home secretary has declared.
James Cleverly set out plans to make it significantly harder to employ foreign workers, with tougher rules on bringing family members to Britain and a review on allowing foreign students to stay for up to two years after their course ends.
The measures, along with already announced plans to ban foreign students from bringing their families over, will cut net migration by more than 300,000, Cleverly said. Net migration was at 672,000 in the year to June.
The measures go further than Downing Street had first intended and answer growing calls for radical action from Conservative MPs and some in government, including Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister.
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