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Chris Hope, GB News. Prime Minister, we've been here before, haven't we
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There have been three Immigration Acts since 2014. The Immigration Act in 2014 and 2016
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both aimed to reduce immigration. They both failed. Why on earth should GB News viewers think you're going to succeed
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And why not give us a promise right now, not a fixed target right now, not a promise
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so we can judge you on success? The Tories at least did that, but they failed. Well, look, the difference here, this is the most comprehensive plan that has been put forward
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It's been forward to end the Tory sort of open borders experiment that we have had
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You're right about that. And it looks at all routes and it's comprehensive
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And it does the hard yards of linking skills and business to what we need to do with the economy
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So it's not a narrow look just at the numbers. it puts them in their proper context
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On the question, which we do want to significantly reduce migration, I'm absolutely making clear that's what it will do
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and that if we need to go further, we will. So that's the promise I make to your viewers
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I don't think it's sensible to put a hard-edged cap on it. That has been done in one form or another for the best part of 10 years
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by different prime ministers. The only thing that links those prime ministers
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and the various caps or quotas or limits they put in place is every single one of them failed
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Therefore, going down the failed route is not a sensible way for me, as with everything
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that I do, serious, pragmatic, looking at the things that will actually make a material difference
