Rishi Sunak says immigration must fall but declines to say which new measures he backs – as it happened

Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt attach a Nissan badge to a car during a visit to the car plant in Sunderland. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/PA

4.09pm GMT

Afternoon summary

• Rishi Sunak has refused to apologise for record net immigration that breaks a key election promise, amid growing pressure for further government action from ministers and Conservative backbench MPs.

• Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, has rejected claims from the Institute for Fiscal Studies thinktank that the spending plans in the autumn statement imply more austerity is on the way. (See 9.25am.)

• The Foreign Office has issued a statement condemning the killing of Palestinian civilians by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, where David Cameron, the foreign secretary, has been meeting Palestinian leaders today. (See 3.31pm.)

Rishi Sunak at the Nissan plant today. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

Updated at 4.28pm GMT

3.42pm GMT

There has been much delight on X this afternoon about a video clip, from yesterday, showing Rishi Sunak apparently unable to use a hammer properly. Even the Labour party’s campaigns department has been joining in.

Rishi Sunak: not the son of a toolmaker pic.twitter.com/zFwCFTf6rU

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) November 24, 2023

At the risk of spoiling the fun, the BBC’s Ione Wells has established that Sunak was actually told to use the hammer sideways when he visited a jewellery making studio in Farsley, West Yorkshire.

This clip is going viral - but in the full unedited rushes of the clip the woman with him actually says beforehand 'use this bit' to which he replies 'sideways?' and she says 'yes.' https://t.co/hd0yWRWbWX

— Ione Wells (@ionewells) November 24, 2023

Rishi Sunak with Emma White during a meeting with small business owners from Sunny Bank Mills, at the Emma White Jewellery Studio in Farsley yesterday. Photograph: Molly Darlington/AP

Updated at 4.25pm GMT