The former immigration secretary has slammed Rishi Sunak after revealing the former Prime Minister had put forward a shocking argument in favor of keeping immigration numbers high.

talking about something BBC Robert Jenrick claimed in the documentary this evening that Mr Sunak was in favor of breaking the deal. conservativesThe manifesto promises to reduce net migration as it would hurt inflation.

Mr Jenrick explained: “He made the argument that mass immigration was a good thing because lowering the wages of British workers was helping to reduce inflation.”

“I was shocked and completely opposed to this approach.”

Her Home Office colleague Suella Braverman added that the wider objection she received from Mr Sunak was: “If we’re going to cut immigration then we’re going to cut income.”

He added: “We’ve issued 1.1 million work and study visas, we’ve never done this before.”

“So this was completely contradictory to our manifesto commitment and Brexit Referendum vote in 2016.

“I touched on all these points Rishi AltarHe promised to support me with the necessary measures.

“These were quickly revealed to be false promises.”

In the face of claims that halving immigration to 300,000 would cause a £3bn loss to the Treasury, Ms Braverman argued: “Let me tell you, it’s so easy we don’t even need to pass a bill through parliament.”

“We don’t need to worry about the House of Lords, we don’t need to worry about the European Court of Human Rights.

“But as long as the Prime Minister refused to support me, my hands were tied.”

Mr Jenrick described looking around the Cabinet room in late November and feeling like he was the only person there “actually pushing for policy”, adding that he concluded that many in the Cabinet were only interested in “symbolic” policy. useful.”

“I left that meeting, walked to Downing Street and at that point I knew I had to resign.”

BBC The documentary titled ‘Immigration: How British Politics Failed’ also includes Tony Blair, David Cameron and Nigel Farage.

Mr Cameron himself admitted that during the Conservative Party’s 14 years in power the party had “not done enough within government to deliver a proper, controlled immigration system that is in Britain’s interests and that people have confidence in”.

Mr Farage warned: “Just watch: this problem is going to get bigger and bigger.”