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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

UK needs annual migration plan to end incoherent policies, says thinktank

Migrants in blankets face the camera from the other side of a thin fence.
Migrants at the Manston processing centre in Kent. Migration has been a central issue for successive UK governments. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters

Ministers should introduce an annual migration plan to put an end to decades of “incoherent, disconnected and unpredictable” policies around work visas, according to a Whitehall thinktank.

The Institute for Government (IfG) said that successive governments have put forward “reactive, kneejerk policies” formulated when politicians have been questioned by broadcasters over net migration figures.

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