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
already focusing doing. the liberal democrats are already focusing on doing. the liberal democrats are already focusing on health - doing. the liberal democrats arej already focusing on health today. earlier i spoke to our political correspondent tony bonsignore. the lib dems are promising to spend £1 million a year on the public health grant, saying that this will reverse real terms cuts to that grant in the past decade, and it will be spent on things like health checks for 74 year olds, wider access to blood pressure test. the lib dems say access to blood pressure test. the lib dems say it access to blood pressure test. tie: lib dems say it will be access to blood pressure test. tue: lib dems say it will be funded by access to blood pressure test. tue lib dems say it will be funded by a clampdown on tax avoidance, and it will reduce pressure on the nhs by preventing people becoming ill in the first place. on the conservatives proposal, which you have just heard from victoria