Sajid Javid has been told to ditch his “disastrous” post-Brexit immigration, which could risk about seven million British jobs.
Migration Watch, an independent body that monitors migration to and from the UK, said if Javid does not put an annual cap on immigration, the numbers coming to the UK would “run rapidly out of control,” reported The Sun.
Migration Watch also warned against scrapping an obligation on businesses to show a British worker is not available before hiring from abroad.
Migration Watch chair Andrew Green said the prime minister risked betraying ordinary working people.
He said: “Expanding work permits to the semi-skilled and to the whole world risks a massive increase in immigration which is the exact opposite of what the public wish to see.
“Accepting these recommendations would be a disaster for immigration policy.”
Migration Watch said as many as five million skilled and two million below graduate level jobs in the UK could be at risk due to “new and increased” competition from workers from around the world under the migration advisory committee's plans.
Green added: “We have seen how Labour allowed immigration to treble in a couple of years. The Conservatives should learn from that and start with an annual cap on the number of workers that are admitted to the UK.”
