00:00 For the last 30 years, government after government has been elected on the promise
00:04 to bring immigration down, only to do the opposite.
00:08 And poll after poll after poll shows that the overwhelming majority of the public want to see
00:14 immigration sharply reduced. This isn't a party political issue,
00:17 it's something that the overwhelming majority of people agree on.
00:20 I resigned as immigration minister because this dishonesty can't go on.
00:27 We're repeatedly told that our current levels of immigration are an economic necessity.
00:35 But that is not true. A lot of the people who've come here either work in very low wage jobs,
00:40 or they don't work at all, and over their lifetime, quite a lot of them will actually
00:44 take out more in public spending than they pay in tax.
00:46 You know, people don't arrive with a house, a mile of road, or a hospital bed.
00:51 A lot of these stocks of infrastructure have been built up for over a long time.
00:54 And so although people can work here,
00:56 that does put pressure on our infrastructure and pressure on our public services too.
01:00 So we've written a report that sets out how we finally take control of migration,
01:06 and bring numbers back down to the tens of thousands.
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