Why Sunak is latest in long line of Tory PMs unable to cut net migration

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Acute labour shortages in sectors from health to fishing, exacerbated by Brexit, driving need to allow more non-EU workers into country

Successive Conservative prime ministers have aimed to reduce net migration but they never seem to get there.

In 2010, David Cameron pledged to bring net migration – the difference between the numbers who arrive in the UK and the numbers leaving – down to “tens of thousands”. He missed every year.

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