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In six weeks time the blueberries will be ripe at Winterwood Farm in Kent and who's going to be picking them? Currently the farm here employs about 320 people of which 300 are from countries all over the world and the remaining 20 are Brits. OK, so you rely heavily on a foreign workforce? Yes. So defining conservatism. But the Home Secretary wants to wean us off after a noisy start at the National Conservatism Conference. What is the next line of that? We welcome you unless you come on a boat. To Heckler's a reminder of the division migration in Vokes she set out her vision. And we mustn't forget how to do things for ourselves.

There is no good reason why we can't train up enough truck drivers, butchers, fruit pickers, builders or welders. This enables us to build a high skilled, high wage economy that is less dependent on low skilled foreign labour. Back at the farm Stephen told me the reality is British people just won't relocate for seasonal work. The government wants us to buy robots and employ Brits. Robots are a decade away so forget that for now and so employ Brits. There are not enough Brits. So as a company our only choice is to grow less and that's what we're doing.

In Maidstone there was scepticism. I think we'd be very lucky to achieve that. Why is that? Because I think people from abroad like that sort of work. Physical work. People want to sit and do buttons. So Ella Braverman's speech is being seen by some as a push to Rishi Sunak and some cabinet colleagues, a reminder if they needed one, of the Brexit promise and the 2019 manifesto pledge by the Conservatives to bring down net migration. Next week we're expecting some figures which will show just how far behind they are.

It could be more than 700,000 for 2022. That would be a record high. We are in a period of unusually high overall migration to the UK and that's for a number of reasons. The biggest really have been international students and people coming from Ukraine and Hong Kong rather than people coming for work. But work has contributed recently to immigration levels, particularly people coming for health and care jobs. That's the single biggest industry that's contributing to the demand for migrant workers. Of course from care to freight to farming, different sectors have different needs at different times.

There is no one size solution but Soella Braverman is determined to make her mark on migration. Tessa Chapman, 5 News in Kent.



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