Robert MacCulloch: Labour Turns on the Immigration Tap which Stuart Nash said we "could not afford to turn on".

Today Immigration Minister Woods announced a further loosening of immigration criteria, even though immigration is already hitting record numbers. On 17 May 2021, then PM Ardern said the government was using Covid-19 as an opportunity to reconsider areas such as immigration. The Labour government’s immigration policy, after initially being elected to power in 2017, was to reduce net migration by about a third – cutting 20,000 to 30,000 migrants from the then total of about 73,000.