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There are already signs of dissent about the immigration white paper amongst Tory backbenchers after a Scottish Tory MP, Kirstene Hair, objected to clauses which will harm low-skilled sectors such as fruit-picking.

Hair is one of the 12 Scottish Tory MPs who won former Scottish National party seats in the 2017 snap general election and her constituency, Angus, has substantial soft fruit farms which supply major supermarkets. A remain-supporter, her family are farmers.

She said she has particular worries about the £30,000 salary threshold envisaged by the new proposals, and said UK immigration policy had to address Scotland’s particular demographic and industrial needs – a call which broadly echoes complaints today from Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister.

Hair said: