"UK Government Launches Ambitious Plan to Drastically Reduce Immigration"

The UK government is making a renewed effort to reduce immigration, focusing on both legal and illegal migration. Plans for legal migration, including a potential increase in the minimum visa salary, will be announced on Monday. Meanwhile, a treaty with Rwanda is expected to be signed by the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, with a new law introduced in the Commons on Tuesday. However, there is skepticism within the Home Office about exempting the Rwanda plan from the UK's commitments to the European Convention on Human Rights. The effectiveness of these measures in reducing immigration remains uncertain, with doubts raised by Conservative backbenchers and others.
- Chris Mason: Ministers in new bid to reduce immigration BBC.com
- James Cleverly: New migration measures will cut number moving to UK by 300,000 The Telegraph
- Tory plan to cut net legal immigration is more drastic than most MPs expected The Guardian
- Love might be blind, but it can't be broke under the Tories The Times
- Newspaper headlines: 'Access denied' and new rules to 'slash migration' BBC.com
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