Labour would cut net migration to 200,000 a year, says shadow minister

Darren Jones says figures are extremely high' and party would aim to reduce them to normal levels'

A Labour government would cut net migration to a couple of hundred thousand a year" within its first term, a shadow cabinet minister has said.

The shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, said the party intended to get net migration back to normal levels", as figures are extremely high".