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The minimum income to bring a family member from abroad to Britain should be lowered to £23,000 to £25,000, the Migration Advisory Committee suggested

The Migration Advisory Committee said that approach would most likely conflict with international law.

Yvette Cooper said the plan would lay out a workforce strategy for Britain and how industries can be less reliant on foreign labour

Foreign carers were banned from bringing their loved ones to the UK in March

Yvette Cooper ordered the Migration Advisory Committee to review what the minimum income requirement for family visas should be

It hasn’t taken long for the backtracking to get under way. The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced this week that the Government would not, in fact, be raising the income threshold for migrants to bring a spouse into the country for fear that it might “damage the economy”.

Agriculture’s reliance on migrant seasonal workers is ‘unlike any other in the UK’

Migration Advisory Committee says the risks are low, despite Tory claims the route is being exploited

'There does seem to have been a changed attitude to work after Covid,' the peer added