Theresa May: Cohesive society impossible with high migration

She continued by saying that it is not in the national interest for “immigration of the scale we have experienced over the past decade”.

She is expected to say: “People on both extremes of the debate – from the anti-immigration far right to the open-borders liberal left – conflate refugees in desperate need of help with economic migrants who simply want to live in a more prosperous society”.

But despite a few initial progress caused by a crackdown on non-EU immigration it has now climbed to record levels – reaching 330,000 a year, according to the latest figures.

‘It’s hard for school and hospitals and core infrastructure like housing and transport to cope’.

May will say that while the refugee crisis has inflamed arguments over migration, people have to realise that the situation is far more complex as Britain already has hundreds of thousands of migrants coming into the country each year.

“If we are to take 20,000 Syrian refugees, making people more anxious about this issue is not compatible with asking them to be welcoming”. If they are approved, they will be granted our protection for the length of time that their home country remains unsafe for them to return.

Hmmm… maybe Britain could use another Iron Lady instead of the men without chests who now run the country. Others, however, have criticised the speech.

Refugee activist Harry Smith Tweeted that the speech was “cruelty wrapped in ideological bile”.

The speech won the approval of UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who tweeted: “Nice to see Theresa May repeating so much of what I have said about uncontrolled migration”.

She told delegates she wanted Britain to be “a beacon of hope” for asylum seekers who genuinely need Britain’s help.

Yes, it makes sense for universities to help stop foreign students overstaying their visas, while moves to discourage welfare tourists can only be welcome.

Conservative sources told the Evening Standard that the policy could apply to “people who fled wars that have finished, or people who fled intolerance towards homosexuality but whose home countries have since passed equality laws”.

“The global system of refugee protection is based on the principle that everyone has the right to claim asylum and to have that claim examined properly”.

“To those people, I have a very clear answer: Not in a thousand years”, May said. “Closing the door to asylum applications does not achieve that”. Of those, 11,600 were granted asylum.

“But to claim against the weight of evidence that the economic benefit of migration is “close to zero” is to pander to the right-wing of the Tory Party”.

However polls also find anti-immigration sentiment is concentrated in parts of the country with the lowest migrant populations.

The top Tory, who is tipped as a future Conservative leader, also argued that immigration controls were needed and she restated David Cameron’s promise to reduce net migration levels to “tens of thousands” of people.

“No-one does that: we can just see how so numerous increasingly complex regulations could so easily be reviewed and improved to huge benefit for the United Kingdom”.

Mr Cameron will say: “When a generation of hard-working men and women in their 20s and 30s are waking up each morning in their childhood bedrooms, that should be a wake-up call for us”.

The brief mention of the hardline Home Secretary in the hour long speech was in marked contrast to the praise lavished on George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Boris Johnson, the London Mayor.