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High immigration levels prevent 'cohesive society' - Cameron Theresa May: Cohesion 'impossible' with high migration
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High levels of immigration to the UK make it hard to build a cohesive society, senior Conservatives are warning. High levels of immigration make it "impossible to build a cohesive society", Theresa May is to warn.
David Cameron said without controlling immigration it was "difficult" to create a "cohesive, integrated society". The home secretary will tell the Conservative Party conference Britain "does not need" net migration at current levels and that is it "difficult" for key services to cope.
Theresa May will use her speech at the Conservative Party conference to say the UK needs to have a limit. Prime Minister David Cameron said he agreed with her comments.
Net migration into the UK currently stands at a record high. Net migration into the UK currently stands at a record high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March.
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Mr Cameron said he was "incredibly proud" the UK had built one of the "most successful multi-racial, multi-ethnic democracies anywhere in the world". Ministers have admitted missing their target to reduce net migration below 100,000, blaming the scale of migration from within the EU.
Addressing the party conference in Manchester, Mrs May will say the "desire for a better life is perfectly understandable" but that "there is a limit to the amount of immigration any country can and should take".
Controls are needed, she will say: "Because when immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast, it's impossible to build a cohesive society. It's difficult for schools and hospitals and core infrastructure like housing and transport to cope."
Wages are also forced down and some people "forced out of work altogether", she will say, adding: "But even if we could manage all the consequences of mass immigration, Britain does not need net migration in the hundreds of thousands every year."
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Cameron said he agreed with the home secretary's comments, saying integrating new arrivals was "more difficult if you have excessive levels of migration".
The PM also said he was "incredibly proud" the UK had built one of the "most successful multi-racial, multi-ethnic democracies anywhere in the world".
But he said that for an "integrated, successful society you have to make sure there are enough school places and that hospitals aren't overcrowded".But he said that for an "integrated, successful society you have to make sure there are enough school places and that hospitals aren't overcrowded".
Meanwhile, Home Secretary Theresa May will say later: "There are millions of people in poorer countries who would love to live in Britain, and there is a limit to the amount of immigration any country can and should take."
She will also warn of the pressure immigration places on infrastructure and public services.
"It's difficult for schools and hospitals and core infrastructure like housing and transport to cope. And we know that for people in low-paid jobs, wages are forced down even further while some people are forced out of work altogether," she is expected to say.
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Net migration - the difference between the number of people entering the country and those leaving - rose by 50% to 318,000 last year, with sharp increases from inside and outside the EU. According to the latest figures released in August, net migration of EU citizens was 183,000, up 53,000 from the year ending March 2014.
A total of 641,000 people moved to the UK in 2014, according to the Office for National Statistics. The number of those arriving from countries outside the EU was still larger, with net migration measured at 196,000, up 39,000 on a year earlier.
This led Mr Cameron to say he would not "cave in" and abandon his target of reducing net migration below 100,000. Ministers said the figures were "deeply disappointing".
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson is expected to tell the party conference that any welfare and tax reforms must not reduce support for "the hardest working and lowest paid". BBC political correspondent Alex Forsyth says that with talk of who might succeed Mr Cameron continuing on conference sidelines, both Mrs May and Mr Johnson's speeches would be closely watched for signs of any leadership ambitions.
The London mayor and Conservative MP will warn that any welfare and tax reforms must not reduce support for "the hardest working and lowest paid".
"Shops workers, cleaners, the people who get up in the small hours or work through the night because they have dreams for what their families can achieve - the people without whom the London economy would simply collapse," he will say."Shops workers, cleaners, the people who get up in the small hours or work through the night because they have dreams for what their families can achieve - the people without whom the London economy would simply collapse," he will say.
"[These are] the people Labour is leaving behind and then there is an even more important requirement."[These are] the people Labour is leaving behind and then there is an even more important requirement.
"Because if Labour is once again becoming the party that pointlessly bashes the rich it is we who give everyone the tools to make their own lives and their own successes.""Because if Labour is once again becoming the party that pointlessly bashes the rich it is we who give everyone the tools to make their own lives and their own successes."
BBC political correspondent Alex Forsyth says that with talk of who might succeed Mr Cameron continuing on conference sidelines, both speeches will be closely watched for signs of any leadership ambitions.