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Conservative Party conference 2024: Tom Tugendhat speech; ENGLAND: Birmingham:INTTom Tugendhat MP (Shadow Security Minister) speech SOT (part 4 of 6)- Now I will build an economy that works for you, that delivers homes and jobs for our children, helps people back to a well paid work, that lets you choose what you do with your money. That's my politics. That's what I will deliver. That's what I mean by a new conservative revolution. So let's talk about migration. Of course we need an effective deterrent, but we must solve as well as stop. And that's.I'll set a legal cap on net migration at 100,000. All the targets of an ambition, a cap. But a cap alone won't work. This is about visas, not about foreign courts. Let me tell you something that my opponents probably won't. This isn't simple. We issued the visas because businesses need the staff for our care homes and our hospitals to look after our families.How do we square this circle? Well, we need to fix migration by fixing the gaps in education and skills in transport and in housing so that we can recruit at home and not abroad. Now I will end the cap on apprenticeships and use the immigration skills charge to invest in further education and train our own people. But it's not just skills. We need higher wages and for that businesses need to be able to grow faster with a fantastic skill and healthy workforce and less regulation. Holding them back. And to get our people ready for the future, the best education needs to be everywhere for every child. Freeing schools and creating academies has seen our schools improve. In Labour run Wales and the SNP in Scotland. Standards are falling. But here in England, my kids are getting a great education because our Conservative government gave parents choice and trusted teachers to teach. That's what a conservative revolution delivers.And for our families to stay fit.You know it. We need the best healthcare in Australia, across Europe. They have better cancer ou...