how much of a threat is nigel farage to the conservatives and labour? in to the conservatives and labour? in the last couple of minutes the conservatives have announced an annual cap on visas to try to bring net migration down. it s a promise they ve made and broken before. welcome to newnsight, live each weeknight with interviews and insight. let me introduce our political panel tonight: dehenna davison was the conservative mp for bishop auckland. elected in 2019, she was the constituency s first ever tory mp. it was one of those red wall seats, wasn t it, that turned blue, back when borisjohnson was the prime minster. and mhairi black is here. she was an snp mp. she was their deputy leader at westminster. she still holds the record for the youngest mp ever to be elected. you were 20. so long ago! that was back in 2015. both women are standing down. and nick s here as is polling guru professor sirjohn curtice. let s start by showing you the times nigel farage has previously
hello. welcome to the programme. we start this hour here in the uk with the general election campaign. labour says it s committed to reducing the number of people legally migrating to britain if it forms the next government. but speaking earlier, the shadow home secretary yvette cooper refused to set a target or any date by which a reduction would be achieved. net migration, the difference between the number of people arriving in the uk and leaving, stood at 685,000 last year. labour s plans include more apprenticeships in jobs that are currently reliant on a significant level of migrant workers. here s our political correspondent ione wells. immigration is a sticky issue in this election campaign, and both major parties say they want to control it. labour says it would train more uk workers to fill skills shortages and it says firms that pay exploitative wages would be banned from hiring foreign workers. but labour have not put a figure on how much they would reduce it by, a
doesn t think that reform are going to form an administration so it s one of two things. he either wants a small number of mps to be elected to be noisy in westminster. to be noisy against labour on migration matters, i assume but also, as you say, to try and push the conservative party to take a slightly tougher view on migration. but he wasn tjust speaking about migration, he talked about taxation as well and growth. interesting, very conservative territory that he seemed to be nipping on. interesting oint, seemed to be nipping on. interesting point. nick. seemed to be nipping on. interesting point, nick, because seemed to be nipping on. interesting point, nick, because a seemed to be nipping on. interesting point, nick, because a number- seemed to be nipping on. interesting point, nick, because a number of- point, nick, because a number of conservative mps believe that his instincts are very conservative, more perhaps than rishi sunak and borisjohnson? more perhaps than rishi s
as first minister, as snp leader. 0n the other hand, someone likejohn swinney will find that quite freeing. this is his chance to use the campaign to reintroduce himself to the people of scotland, to tell them who he is going to be as their first minister, and i think he will try and combine the campaigning for the westminster election with establishing himself as scotland s new first minister. but it also means that whatever the result, it is difficult to hold john swinney accountable for it, and he can then build from there to the 2026 elections in scotland. interesting oint as elections in scotland. interesting point as you elections in scotland. interesting point as you make. elections in scotland. interesting point as you make. if elections in scotland. interesting point as you make. if the - elections in scotland. interesting point as you make. if the blame l elections in scotland. interesting - point as you make. if the blame does fly around, it won t hit him if he is a rel
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