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Old May 19th, 2017 #1
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Post Sir Michael Fallon admits no timetable set for Tory plans to cut immigration

No timetable has been set for the Tory plan to cut annual net migration to the “tens of thousands”, a senior Cabinet minister has admitted.

Sir Michael Fallon said it was an “ambition” to get the numbers down but said the economic cost of the policy could not be calculated because there was no fixed deadline.

The Tory manifesto retained the target, which has never been met since being introduced by David Cameron.

The policy document said the current figure of 273,000 people heading to Britain was “still too high” and promised to slash the number to “sustainable levels”.

Challenged how much the cost of cutting immigration would be, Defence Secretary Sir Michael said: “There has been various academic work done on the cost of immigration.

“We have made it clear we accept there is a cost and we want to make sure that British companies do contribute to the training of British workers when they want to fill that post.”

Pressed on the cost on BBC Two’s Newsnight, Sir Michael said: “We haven’t set out a formulation of how much it will reduce by each year, what we have set out is our ambition to continue to bear down on immigration. It’s an ambition, and we have had it in previous manifestos.”

Michael Fallon tells #newsnight the Conservatives have not costed the impact on the economy of reducing immigration to tens of thousands pic.twitter.com/AhWvS8Z25Q
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) May 19, 2017

Sir Michael conceded that “we have not costed (it) because we don’t know, specifically, what year we are going to reach that point of reducing to exactly tens of thousands”.

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Old May 19th, 2017 #2
Ray Allan
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Well, Sir Michael is Defence Secretary--he could have military personnel doing their legitimate job of protecting the UK's borders, but they are too busy covering for ISIS and other important work for Shlomo in the sandbox and elsewhere.
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