Sentences with phrase «limit on migrants»

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A temporary limit on the number of migrant workers from outside the EU allowed into Britain is expected to be announced tomorrow.

Immigration We have agreed that there should be an annual limit on the number of non-EU economic migrants admitted into the UK to live and work.

She dismissed suggestions that the government was now considering a «grey Brexit» — leaving the single market with Canada - style bespoke access to parts of the free trade zone, and limits on immigration apart from for skilled migrants in specific sectors.

In April we introduced a limit on the number of economic migrants able to come to the UK from outside the European Economic Area.

We have agreed that there should be an annual limit on the number of non-EU economic migrants admitted into the UK to live and work.

Mr Cameron's hopes of securing an agreement on limiting access to Britain's welfare state were dealt a blow yesterday when European Council president Donald Tusk warned there is «presently no consensus» on barring migrants from in - work benefits and social housing.

In his Queen's Speech, prime minister David Cameron said the coalition government had agreed there should be an annual limit on the number of non-European Union migrants admitted into the UK to live and work.

Speaking on BBC1's Sunday Politics, Boris Johnson, the mayor of London and a potential replacement for Cameron if the Tories lose the election, put pressure on the prime minister to push for EU immigration to be limited to skilled migrants who have a specific job to come to.

A limit on economic migrants from outside the EU, changes to the rules on family and student visas and a crackdown on bogus colleges have helped bring down net migration by nearly a third from its peak.

He adds that many groups of mammals that live on the mainland today were not present during the early phases of colonization of Madagascar, limiting potential migrant diversity.

The government's original plan, announced last October, set a new annual limit on the number of skilled and highly skilled migrant visas for non-E.U. citizens — the new cap was set at 20,700 visas, down 7300 from previous years.

The Commission's plan was indeed a limited emergency brake, just in - work benefits, although it was often argued that these were so generous that they exerted a pull - effect on migrants, in which case reducing them might have reduced migrant numbers.