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Recent official figures on immigration have revealed that number of European Union citizens moving to Britain during the previous year rose significantly by 43,000.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), there was no statistically significant change in overall net migration – the number of people arriving minus those leaving, which is estimated at 212,000 in 2013. However, the net migration of EU citizens has increased largely in the year to December 2013 as some 201,000 European citizens came into the U.K. as long-term immigrants.
The fresh data on immigration indicates the coalition government’s failure to keep its promise of cutting the immigration.
Labour party have criticised the government’s failure over reducing the net immigration to 100,000 a year.
The immigration and security minister, James Brokenshire has commented by saying that the latest figures showed that migration had reduced by a third since its peak in 2005, under the previous government, “and that this government’s reforms have cut net migration from outside the EU to levels not seen since the late 1990s”.
However, shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper has stated: “David Cameron and [home secretary] Theresa May’s flagship immigration pledge is in shreds.”
She has told that current government’s pledge to control the net migration to be reduced to the tens of thousands by the end of the current parliament, yet “the actual figure is over twice [their target].”
Ms Cooper has added: “Just 18 months ago, the home secretary claimed she would meet her target. Just a week ago, the prime minister claimed meeting the target was ‘perfectly feasible’. But they have no policies to deliver it, and the public know there is a huge gap between Tory rhetoric and the reality.”
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