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While the Prime Minister received a boost after last week\u2019s tax-cutting measures, it is the failure to tackle migration which poses \u201can existential threat for the Tory party\u201d.<\/p>\n
As net migration hit 745,000 last year, one MP said eight in 10 of the voters he speaks with demand to know what is being done.<\/p>\n
With time running out before the general election, Tories are becoming \u201ccompletely disillusioned\u201d by the lack of progress.<\/p>\n
Ex-Brexit minister David Jones said: \u201cThese figures are extremely worrying. This is a large British city arriving in the country every year, without the infrastructure to accommodate it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that it will be a \u201cvery big problem\u201d if the Government does not stop the small boat crossings. It suffered a setback earlier this month when the courts ruled its Rwanda plan was illegal.<\/p>\n
PM Rishi Sunak said: \u201cI need to finish the job and that means getting the Rwanda deal up and running. I\u2019m prepared to do whatever is necessary to get that scheme operational.\u201d Work is underway on a new framework to make the proposals successful.<\/p>\n
Former Chief Secretary to the Treasury Sir Simon Clarke insisted he must ensure flights to Rwanda take off, despite the Supreme Court defeat.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt\u2019s impossible to overstate how important it is that the Government brings forward legislation that will actually resolve this situation \u2013 and not a compromise based on fear of what may happen in the House of Lords.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former Business Secretary Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said: \u201cThe coalition of voters we had in 2019 voted for us in part because we would control legal and stop illegal migration.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the moment we\u2019re not doing either. It is really, really important the Government gets to grips with this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Sunak defended the current position, telling a Sunday newspaper that he had already taken action in other areas to curb migration. He said: \u201cThere is obviously a lot more to do and that\u2019s why we need to take action. I announced previously
significant tightening up on the number of dependants that students can bring, which has seen a very striking rise over the past year or two.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: <\/strong> Rishi Sunak’s rushed law won\u2019t get Rwanda flights to take off<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis represents the single biggest measure of restriction on legal migration that anyone\u2019s announced in years.<\/p>\n \u201cThat should give people a sense of my determination to bring these numbers down.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201c I\u2019ve come into this job, I\u2019ve had it for a year and I\u2019ve already got the numbers down by a third.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I think people can trust me when I say I\u2019m going to do something, that I\u2019m going to deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n Exclusive polling by WeThink shows that while people welcomed last week\u2019s tax cuts \u2013 with 48 per cent in favour and 21 per cent against \u2013 they do not think the Government will succeed in sending asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing before the election.<\/p>\n Of more than 1,100 adults asked, fewer than one in five (18 per cent) think the plan will become reality before polling day, compared with 57 per cent who think it will not.<\/p>\n New Home Secretary James Cleverly has fuelled anxiety on the Right of the party by saying the Rwanda scheme should not be seen as the \u201cbe all A backbench Conservative said: \u201cThere is no way to tackle small boats and illegal migration without a deterrent \u2013 and Rwanda is our deterrent.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s pretty concerning he\u2019s making those comments.\u201d<\/p>\n Former Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: \u201cIf I knock 100 doors, immigration will be raised by at least 80 of them. Stopping the boats is essential.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is compassionate and fair. We must break the cycle of gangs exploiting some of the most vulnerable people.\u201d<\/p>\n A Conservative MP said the Prime Minister \u201cknew immigration was a massive problem\u201d but has \u201cchosen to do virtually nothing about it,\u201d adding: \u201cWith 2019 Tory voters, immigration is the number one issue. As a party we\u2019re now drifting towards an extinction level event.\u201d<\/p>\n And an MP representing a former Labour Red Wall seat said: \u201cIf the Govern-ment hasn\u2019t realised that its multiple by-election defeats and its local government results are somehow connected with all of this, I really don\u2019t know what they must be thinking. It\u2019s just unbelievable.<\/p>\n \u201cThis issue has really rocked a lot of people\u2019s confidence.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is now an existential threat for the Conservative party and many MPs are completely disillusioned.\u201d<\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong>
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