Rishi Sunak vows to ‘clamp down’ on immigration amid Tory anger

PM says there is ‘much more to do’ on manifesto pledge to bring numbers as down as net migration to UK hits record high

Rishi Sunak has vowed to “clamp down” on immigration and conceded, in the face of growing Tory anger about his past performance, that there is “obviously a lot more to do” to reduce the record numbers of people emigrating to the UK.

Earlier this week, official figures showed net migration is running at a record high, triggering Boris Johnson, Suella Braverman and other right-wing Conservatives to attack Sunak for failing to honour the government’s 2019 Tory manifesto pledge to bring overall migration numbers down.