David Hanson MP, Labour’s Shadow Immigration Minister, responding to reports that the Government is to drop plans for bonds for migrants, said:

“After ad vans and texts to the wrong people, it seems David Cameron’s Government can’t get anything right when it comes to dealing with illegal immigration.

"Theresa May is all over the place and presiding over an immigration policy in chaos.

“Within a week of the Home Office briefing that they would be introducing £3,000 bonds for family visitors to the UK from ‘high risk’ countries the policy was briefed against by No10 and now it is officially dead and an ex policy.

"Investors in India are now put off from investing in the UK whilst the Home office fail repeatedly to do anything about their failure at our borders to stop and return illegal immigrants, failure to tackle backlogs in processing delays or enforcement of immigration rules within the UK.

"Chasing headlines followed by confusion and u turn is no way to manage an effective and robust immigration policy that works for all concerned.”