Michael Gove: High levels of immigration put pressure on housing and utilities

Mr Gove said limiting the number of people entering the UK should be a vital part of Brexit freedom. Credit: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Michael Gove said immigration levels are so high that there is «inevitable pressure» on the supply of housing and utilities.

Mr Gove made this remark, arguing for the ability governments to limit the number of people entering the UK. should be a vital part of her Brexit freedoms.

In a conversation with Madeleine Grant, parliamentary sketch writer for The Telegraph, at a national conservatism conference, the housing minister was asked about projections of net migration that could reach one million.

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He replied, «I don't know.» I do not think that he will reach these figures, but you are right. If you are looking for housing problems, we must look at it comprehensively.

“The UK has always been a country that has benefited from talented people coming here and fleeing persecution. But lately the numbers have been at a level where there is an inevitable level of pressure on housing and utilities, as is the case with longevity.»

Mr Gove said the country cannot «simply ignore» the impact newcomers to the housing market, and the crackdown planned by Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman was «absolutely right.»

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«We need, and it's an important part of Brexit, to be able to say this is the level of migration that we as a country think is right.

“This is the level that we have set, these are safe routes for people fleeing persecution, these are points that we give for certain professions and skills. Beyond that, there is a limit.

«Every country in the world recognizes that it needs to manage these flows, and managing these flows is a challenge for everyone.»

Later in the discussion, Mr. Mr. Gove acknowledged that it is becoming «increasingly difficult» to achieve traditional milestones, including starting a family and building a home.

“There is a problem, and the problem is that they simply do not exist. enough houses in this country, it's getting harder to climb the property ladder.

He added: «We need to think about the offer, but we also need to think about how we can help people, especially young people, to in this increasingly competitive market to get the early buyer support they need.”

The government sank to key planning reforms in the face of last year's Tory uprising, lifting mandatory home building targets for local areas after its own MPs threatened to reject the change.

Disputed Whether won his supporters in arguing with those who want to build more houses, Mr Gove described an approach that he and Rishi Sunak see as «absolutely committed to building more houses, but also [taking into account] other conservative values.»

He also confirmed that the tenancy system will be reformed, not abolished, despite his previous promise to end the «outdated» ownership model.

«What we do» royal commission to make sure that we actually reduce the leasehold on the homeopathic element in the UK real estate market,” he said.

Asked if the right needs to be more assertive in waging the culture wars, Mr Gove noted that there is «something distinctly British in the softness and politeness of the discourse.»

«I think the overwhelming most people in this country prefer civility, they want people to support them.

«My own point of view is that there are certain things, certain principles that you must absolutely defend, and it is absolutely important that we didn't deny the biological reality that we don't feel we have to apologize for aspects of our past that are genuine sources of pride.

«But we have to do it with self-confidence, which means we don't have to be sharply, that we can draw on those traditions that we admire. "

When asked if the National Conservative Conference was a sign of a split in the Tory party, Mr Gove dismissed concerns about the meeting.

Calling it «evidence intellectual energy that we have with the centre-right,” he compared the Conservative Party to “a field irrigated by many different areas and many different rivers.”