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'Britain Doesn't Need An Immigration Cap'
1:33pm UK, Sunday January 17, 2010
Ruth Barnett, Sky News Online
Annual caps on immigration are unnecessary and could exclude people with valuable skills, the Communities Secretary has said.
Conservative leader David Cameron has proposed limiting the net number of people who are able to live and work in Britain to the "tens of thousands" a year.
He predicted the population would rise to 70 million and put a strain on resources.
But John Denham has said the Government does not support the idea as applicants with something to contribute should get the chance to come to Britain.
"Suppose the first person after the cap was an international heart specialist?" the Communities Secretary told Sunday Live with Adam Boulton.
"We don't think population is going to go to 70 million, so there is a bit of a straw man there," he said.
"We have got tight immigration control - the points-based system that is now in place means that people can only come here if what they are going to give to this country is something we need."
Mr Denham also said progress been made in the fight against racial prejudice and suggested are now more disadvantaged on the basis of their social class.
The most discriminated people in Britain may not be non-white, he said.
Nick Clegg
"Young people from white working class communities deserve extra help and extra support as anybody who has been racially disadvantaged," he added.
Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, also appeared to distance himself from Mr Cameron's call for an immigration cap.
"It might work in his focus groups but it is not actually going to produce the cohesive Britain that I want to see," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr.
"What has gone wrong in the immigration debate is that we have now had decades of tough talk and administrative incompetence from both Conservative and Labour governments," he said.
In 2008, net immigration - the number of people coming to Britain above the number emigrating - was 163,000, down from 237,000 in 2007.
1:33pm UK, Sunday January 17, 2010
Ruth Barnett, Sky News Online
Annual caps on immigration are unnecessary and could exclude people with valuable skills, the Communities Secretary has said.
Conservative leader David Cameron has proposed limiting the net number of people who are able to live and work in Britain to the "tens of thousands" a year.
He predicted the population would rise to 70 million and put a strain on resources.
But John Denham has said the Government does not support the idea as applicants with something to contribute should get the chance to come to Britain.
"Suppose the first person after the cap was an international heart specialist?" the Communities Secretary told Sunday Live with Adam Boulton.
"We don't think population is going to go to 70 million, so there is a bit of a straw man there," he said.
"We have got tight immigration control - the points-based system that is now in place means that people can only come here if what they are going to give to this country is something we need."
Mr Denham also said progress been made in the fight against racial prejudice and suggested are now more disadvantaged on the basis of their social class.
The most discriminated people in Britain may not be non-white, he said.
Nick Clegg
"Young people from white working class communities deserve extra help and extra support as anybody who has been racially disadvantaged," he added.
Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, also appeared to distance himself from Mr Cameron's call for an immigration cap.
"It might work in his focus groups but it is not actually going to produce the cohesive Britain that I want to see," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr.
"What has gone wrong in the immigration debate is that we have now had decades of tough talk and administrative incompetence from both Conservative and Labour governments," he said.
In 2008, net immigration - the number of people coming to Britain above the number emigrating - was 163,000, down from 237,000 in 2007.
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