Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is drawing up legislation to make it easier to deport overseas offenders as well as failed asylum seekers, the Mail can reveal.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to unveil the crucial three-year settlements for departments in just over a week, amid mounting pressure on the public finances.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the detail would only arrive 'later this summer', with much of it requiring law changes that will take many months to implement.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the plan would mean a 'substantial' drop on last year's net migration figure of 728,000, but refused to put a cap on numbers, saying it was a 'failed approach'.
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: It is so hard to believe that Yvette Cooper has suddenly abandoned the open borders opinions of the Labour top deck, which they pushed so hard to implement.