The Coalition is exploring how it can toughen screening to make sure new migrants agree with Australian values, as Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s frontbench works on an immigration policy that will unite fractured MPs while taking a fight to Labor.

Enhancing the Australian values statement that prospective migrants must sign when they apply for certain visas is one option available to Ley’s home affairs spokesman Jonno Duniam and immigration spokesman Paul Scarr, who have been asked to design a policy in the next few weeks.

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley and her home affairs spokesman Jonno Duniam. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

Ley last week signalled her next fight with the government would be over migration, as she seeks to temper freelancing from backbenchers, such as leadership riva

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