Sajid Javid attacks Theresa May's immigration policy as he refuses to endorse 'tens of thousands' target

Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary
Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary

Sajid Javid has publicly criticised Theresa May's migration policy and refused to endorse her target of reducing the number of people coming to the UK to "tens of thousands"

The Home Secretary was repeatedly asked whether he supports the Prime Minister's target of reducing net migration levels to the "tens of thousands". 

He refused to explicitly say that he supports the target, instead saying that he supports the policies in the Conservative Party's manifesto.

He told the Andrew Marr show on BBC One: “I’m committed to our manifesto. I’ll be working towards, rightly, reducing net migratoin and bringing it to lower sustainable levels.”

He suggested he agrees that students should be removed from...

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