BBC clash over New Conservatives bid to slash migrant numbers

Miriam Cates found herself in a clash with BBC Presenter Mishal Hussain over the New Conservatives’ bid to slash migration numbers. The group of MPs has called for the Prime Minister to deliver on the 2019 manifesto and cut net migration figures. Appearing on BBC Radio 4′s Today programme, Ms Cates said care home bosses should employ “local young people” instead of relying on foreign labour. But Ms Hussain said: “There are residential care homes which simply would not be able to say to hospitals ‘we are ready, we have the beds, you can discharge people’ if they weren’t recruiting from overseas.” Hitting back, the MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge said: “But we have five million people economically inactive in this country …”