Robert Jenrick has called for a decade of net emigration – and said asylum seekers should be housed in camps.
The Tory justice spokesman also argued that the points-based system created under previous governments was the 'worst policy mistake' in his lifetime.
It came as Sir Keir Starmer vowed not to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), saying it would be a 'profound mistake'.
Mr Jenrick said he wanted to see a period of net emigration – where more people leave the country than arrive.
'I think the country now needs breathing space after this period of mass migration,' he told The Spectator.
