Mass migration could cost the Conservative Party victory at the next general election, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said. 

The former business secretary said that “never before has there been such a large movement of people” to the UK and “there’s no reason to accept this as the status quo”.

Sir Jacob said failing to deliver on Tory pledges to bring down the numbers “lets down an electorate that has given repeated mandates to get the numbers under control”. 

His comments came after official figures published last week revealed a new record net migration high of 745,000 in 2022, prompting calls from Tory MPs for Rishi Sunak to take immediate action to reduce the numbers. 

Sir Jacob told GB News: “The question of mass migration could cost the Tory Party the next election. Mass migration is not the norm in our history, it’s the exception.”

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