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Farage addresses how Reform UK would deal with migration - but 'can't tell you the numbers right now'
Nigel Farage has told Sky News he would allow some essential migration in areas with skill shortages but that numbers would be capped.
The Reform UK leader said he would announce the cap "in four years' time" after he was pressed repeatedly by Sky's deputy political editor Sam Coates about his manifesto pledge to freeze "non-essential" immigration. Politics latest: PM accused of 'shameful' language in migration crackdown It was put to Mr Farage that despite his criticism of the government's migration crackdown, allowing essential migration in his own plans is quite a big caveat given the UK's skills shortages.
However the Clacton MP said he would allow people to plug the gaps on "time dependent work permits" rather than on longer-term visas. He said: "Let's take engineering, for argument's sake.
We don't train enough engineers, we just don't. It's crazy.
"We've been pushing young people to doing social sciences degrees or whatever it is. "So you're an engineering company, you need somebody to come in on skills.
If they come in, on a time dependent work permit, if all the right health assurances and levies have been paid and if at the end of that period of time, you leave or you're forced to leave, then it works." Read more:What are Starmer's new immigration rules?The choice facing Labour in face of Reform threat - analysis Reform's manifesto, which they call a "contract.
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