Kemi Badenoch said the Government is taking the new net migration record high “very seriously”. 

The Business and Trade Secretary said there is “a lot of work to be done” because the numbers are “far too high” and “we need to bring it down”. 

Her comments came as Rishi Sunak faced growing pressure to take fresh action to curb legal migration levels after official figures published last week revealed a new peak of 745,000 had been hit in 2022. 

Ms Badenoch told Sky News: “The Prime Minister has been very clear that net migration is not sustainable on those numbers so we need to look again. 

“The Home Secretary is going to be giving a lot of detail about what it is we are going to be doing next. We have been talking about the plan for Rwanda, we had the disappointing result from the Supreme Court. We are still working at this. 

“I know that the legislation is being worked on. You have mentioned the review. So this is a Government that is taking this very seriously. There is a lot of work to be done and as I said, net migration at those figures is far too high. We need to bring it down.” 

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