UK needs annual migration plan to end incoherent policies, says thinktank

With white paper imminent, Institute for Government urges ministers to abandon reactive, kneejerk' decisions

Ministers should introduce an annual migration plan to put an end to decades of incoherent, disconnected and unpredictable" policies around work visas, according to a Whitehall thinktank.

The Institute for Government (IfG) said that successive governments have put forward reactive, kneejerk policies" formulated when politicians have been questioned by broadcasters over net migration figures.