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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Peter Walker Deputy political editor

Sunak ‘agreed with Braverman to £40k income threshold for UK migrants’

Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak.
Braverman, sacked by Sunak last month, had repeatedly threatened to release documents showing he had agreed to policy demands on migration before she backed him to become PM. Photograph: Phil Noble/PA

Rishi Sunak agreed to a series of measures with Suella Braverman to bring down migration to the UK, including raising the minimum salary threshold to £40,000, according to reports on Monday of a verbal pact with the former home secretary.

While No 10 has denied any formal plan, Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, hinted on Monday that the salary threshold could be increased anyway as part of “much, much tougher measures” being drawn up.

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