Priti Patel clarifies the party’s defense of the party’s immigration record

Preeti Patel has made a statement that she was “not happy” about the level of immigration under the previous orthodox government, after defending her party’s record earlier.

In earlier interviews, Patel also refused to apologize for an increase in the numbers in Britain, when he was the Home Secretary.

Talking to The Sun’s Not Mind The Bellet, Patel, who is now Shadow Foreign Secretary, said it was “completely deformed” that the government suggested that it had served in which the UK boundaries opened Was gone

His party leader Kemi Badenoch appeared to remove himself from the comment, his spokesperson said the conservative “would tell the truth about the mistakes made by us”.

“While the final orthodox government may have tried to control the numbers, we have not distributed,” he said.

Last year, shortly after becoming a leader, Badenoch held a press conference, in which he said that the increase in immigration was “the collective failure of political leaders from all parties for decades … but from the Conservative Party, the new leader’s behalf As a new leader, it is true that I accept responsibility and say it with truth, we found it wrong. “

The data released in 2024 revealed that the UK had a record 906,000 records in June 2023 to June 2023 before falling to 728,000 next year.

The immigration increases rapidly under the digit-based system for the work visa introduced after Brexit.

In an interview on Thursday, the data was challenged, Patel – who was the Home Secretary between 2019 and 2022 – demanded to protect the conservative record on immigration.

He said that the point-based system has allowed the government to control the flow of immigration based on “what our economy needs and does not need it”.

Asked if they should apologize to the voters who were told that Brexit would decrease in immigration, Patel said: “I did not mislead them”.

He said, “We made it clear that it would be the people of the rest of the world, people with skills” are coming in the post-breaks of Britain.

He said that many people came to the UK on health and social care visas, saying: “Are we now saying that we do not need those people in our NHS?”

However, she also said that she was “not well” with a huge increase in immigration and argued that instead of relying on foreign labor to fill the interval in areas like farming, to train people in Britain instead of training people in areas like farming. More should have been done.

Asked why it did not happen, he said: “This is a very good question (environmental ministers) and others should have been presented.

“I was doing other national security issues – Home Secretary work.”

Responding to the interview, Labor labeled the conservatives “out of the touch” and said that Patel is “proud of his central role in the Tory Open-Border experiment”.

Reform UK leader Nigel Faraj said that the conservatives had “a disastrous record on immigration – and would do it again”.

A few hours after the interview broadcast, Patel posted a message on social media stating: “The immigration system in our country is not fit for purpose.

“As I said in the interview, I was not happy about the high number while conservatives were in the government.

“Our party is now under the new leadership and it is important that we learn from our mistakes and how we can do things better.”