Braverman said new Prime Minister Liz Truss' government aimed to stick to a 2019 election pledge to lower net migration.

"What we've got is too many low skilled workers coming into this country," she said in an interview ahead of the ruling Conservative Party's annual conference.

"We've also got a very high number of students coming into this country and we've got a really high number of dependents," she added.

(Reporting by David Milliken; Editing by Alexander Smith)