Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has said the government needs to ‘urgently’ deliver on reducing net migration if it has any hope of re-establishing trust with British voters.

Speaking on GB News, he said:

“Two revelatory polls have appeared in the newspapers, and although they were conducted separately on ostensibly different subjects, they were inextricably linked and intertwined.

“The first, conducted by YouGov, suggested the Tories face electoral oblivion, returning 169 seats at the next general election, handing Sir Keir Starmer a Tony Blair-esque majority of 120.

“This is reminiscent of Tony Blair’s landslide victory over John Major in 1997, in which he secured a 179 seat majority.

“The other poll, however, didn’t make front pages but seems to explain, at least in part, the risk of a forthcoming electoral disaster for the Tories.

“This research commissioned by the think tank Onward, run by the estimable Sebastian Payne, has revealed that 90% of constituencies would like to see immigration reduced in the UK.

“Here’s the picture that tells a thousand words. The red constituencies are the ones who want to increase immigration, while the blue constituencies are the ones who want to reduce it: if only this map was showing Tory/Labour seats in red and blue.

“But perhaps even more importantly, this data suggests that the British public underestimate the rate of immigration by a tenth.

“The average respondent believed net migration last year was a mere 70,000 when in reality that migration for the year to June 2023 was 675,000.

“What does this tell us? Well, that the public believe that net migration is more than ten times higher than it ought to be.

“And this has thrown even more light on the gulf between the political class and the people in the United Kingdom.

“For this poll to coincide with the electoral poll, is markedly convenient because it answers any questions that Tory party may have.

“The British public were promised that immigration would be brought down from the hundreds to the tens of thousands in 2010, and in 2015.

“They then voted in favour of Brexit especially to regain sovereignty over migration policy.

“This hasn’t happened. People are feeling dissatisfied. There’s are Rwanda bill before Parliament at the moment.

“The Tories need to deliver on this and deliver on this urgently if that have any hope of re-establishing trust with British voters.”