I mean, what he literally said is pretty close to that, yep:
What I would like to see is the numbers go down in some areas. I think we're recruiting too many people from overseas into, for example, the health service.
That's only a quarter of what he said. You've taken once sentence and ignored the context.
Did he say:
A) We're employing too many migrants in the NHS
B) We aren't training enough doctors and nurses in the UK and importing talent from overseas does not solve that problem.
I mean, what he literally said is pretty close to that, yep: