The Conservatives must stop their voters from "drifting to Reform" in order to win the next election, Robert Jenrick has said.

Speaking to Sky News' political editor Beth Rigby, the former immigration minister pointed to lowering legal migration as the "most important" issue to win back those who now support Nigel Farage's party - as well as people who voted Tory in 2019 "who [now] don't feel that the party is being conservative enough". Mr Jenrick also said he would have "no problem" with Mr Farage joining his party, or "working with" him, adding: "I want the Conservative Party to be one which is the natural home for anyone who shares my determination to tackle issues like illegal and legal migration." Politics live: First PMQs after Tory drubbing at local elections The interview came after Mr Jenrick unveiled his 30-point plan to curb legal migration, including a call to split the Home Office in two so a fresh department could have the "sole mission" of controlling immigration.

Official estimates published in November indicated the net migration figure - the difference between the number of people arriving and leaving Britain - reached a record 745,000 in 2022. But in the 2019 Tory manifesto, the party promised to bring the "overall number down".

Mr Jenrick - the Tory MP for Newark - told Rigby that politicians had "betrayed the promise of Brexit by creating a legal migration system that, if anything, is more liberal than the one we had when we were in the European Union.