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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->MANCHESTER: A Conservative government would try to attract more highly qualified migrants to Britain, shadow minister for immigration Damian Green has said.
'We want to attract more than our fair share of the brightest and the best,' BBC yesterday quoted him as saying on the sidelines of the Tories' annual conference in Manchester.
He said the party would maintain the government's current point-based immigration system, but limit overall annual numbers, cutting back on low-skilled migration while pushing for more high-grade workers.
Mr Green said the Tories aim to create an immigration system modelled on the Australian system, which sets quotas for some professions and also targets highly qualified migrants.
He said attracting more entrepreneurs and highly qualified graduates to Britain was vital if it hoped to compete with large economies such as Japan or the United States.
But controlling immigration by capping overall numbers is also important in order to ease pressure on public services and calm social tensions. People will feel 'more welcoming' and 'relaxed' about immigration if they have evidence it is not threatening their local services.
He also expressed concern about the government's earned citizenship scheme which, among other things, encourages people to volunteer for activities, including helping political parties.
'Forced volunteering' on a mass scale could have a potentially 'horrific' impact on voluntary groups which would have to police it, Mr Green said.
He said Britain had been 'really lucky as a country' in that the unplanned influx of migrants from Eastern Europe over the past few years had consisted of 'hard-working and respectable' people.
'We are lucky. We got away with it,' he told a Work Foundation event.
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->MANCHESTER: A Conservative government would try to attract more highly qualified migrants to Britain, shadow minister for immigration Damian Green has said.
'We want to attract more than our fair share of the brightest and the best,' BBC yesterday quoted him as saying on the sidelines of the Tories' annual conference in Manchester.
He said the party would maintain the government's current point-based immigration system, but limit overall annual numbers, cutting back on low-skilled migration while pushing for more high-grade workers.
Mr Green said the Tories aim to create an immigration system modelled on the Australian system, which sets quotas for some professions and also targets highly qualified migrants.
He said attracting more entrepreneurs and highly qualified graduates to Britain was vital if it hoped to compete with large economies such as Japan or the United States.
But controlling immigration by capping overall numbers is also important in order to ease pressure on public services and calm social tensions. People will feel 'more welcoming' and 'relaxed' about immigration if they have evidence it is not threatening their local services.
He also expressed concern about the government's earned citizenship scheme which, among other things, encourages people to volunteer for activities, including helping political parties.
'Forced volunteering' on a mass scale could have a potentially 'horrific' impact on voluntary groups which would have to police it, Mr Green said.
He said Britain had been 'really lucky as a country' in that the unplanned influx of migrants from Eastern Europe over the past few years had consisted of 'hard-working and respectable' people.
'We are lucky. We got away with it,' he told a Work Foundation event.
[email protected]
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