Jeremy corbyn: 'i am making no promises' to cut immigration

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The Labour Party leader was next in line to face the veteran BBC host and said he would not follow Theresa May down the road of pledging to lower immigration figures. Mrs May, twice as Home


Secretary and once as Prime Minister, has said she would lower net migration to the tens of thousands, something Mr Corbyn refused to match. Mr Corbyn has previously said a Labour government


would deliver a “fair” immigration policy and recognised it will “probably be lower”, adding he did not want to make predictions. Neil insisted Mr Corbyn and Labour were not the party to


fulfil some voters demands to lower the migration number. Mr Corbyn responded: “We are in favour of managed immigration when the free movement ends when we leave the European Union. “We are


against people being brought in as wholesale workforces to undermine existing working conditions and workers. “There will be managed migration in the future based on… However, Neil


interjected: “Will you be cutting immigration?” Mr Corbyn replied: “Based on the economic needs of our society. CORBYN DENIES SUPPORTING IRA AFTER ANDREW NEIL GRILLING “We’ve had Theresa May


promising in three elections to make cuts to immigration – I am making no promises on that.” He said Labour would deal with immigration based on the “economic needs of the country as a


whole” and to facilitate “necessary family reunions”. Asked once against if he would try to cut the numbers, the Labour leader added: “Well, if the economy is doing well and we train people


properly then the need to bring in skilled workers from overseas will obviously reduce.” Mr Corbyn was also put on the spot over claims he has met with the IRA and his links to the group. He


stressed his desire for peace in Northern Ireland, adding: “I never met the IRA.” Asked why people would want him as prime minister given his previous support for the group, Mr Corbyn


replied: “I didn’t support the IRA. I don’t support the IRA. “What I want everywhere is a peace process. What I want everywhere is decency and human rights. “We went through all the horrors


of Northern Ireland - all through the 70s and 80s - through the period of the Troubles, and eventually came from that a peace process, the Good Friday Agreement, and now relative peace and


stability."


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