No pledge on migrant targets

RISHI Sunak has refused to put an “arbitrary number” on the target for reducing net migration to the UK as he said he did not “want all of them in the world”.

The Prime Minister also conceded that the deal with France on Channel crossings was not a “silver bullet”.

He appeared to distance himself from his previous pledge over the summer to create an annual cap on the number of refugees. Mr Sunak was responding to questions about Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s pledge to reduce net migration to tens of thousands of people.

GARETH FULLER/PA WIRE A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a Border Force vessel on Monday