Boris Johnson wants Britain to be more open to skilled migrants HANNAH MCKAY/REUTERSBoris Johnson will pledge today to restore public faith in Britain’s immigration rules with a regime modelled on Australia’s points-based system. The Tory leadership frontrunner says Britain must be more open to skilled migrants but he will give assurances that “we have control over the number of unskilled immigrants coming into the country” after Brexit. “We must be tougher on those who abuse our hospitality,” he will say. “Other countries such as Australia have great systems and we should learn from them.”Mr Johnson will not commit himself to reducing net migration generally or to the Tories’ pledge to cut it to tens of thousands, however. He intends to commission the government’s Migration Advisory Committee to look at the Australian points-based system and report by…

Source: The Times June 26, 2019 23:00 UTC