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| Net annual migration to Britain has leapt to 318,000, just 2,000 below the highest figure on record, the Office for National Statistics has announced. | Net annual migration to Britain has leapt to 318,000, just 2,000 below the highest figure on record, the Office for National Statistics has announced. |
| There were sharp increases in new arrivals both from the European Union and outside the EU in a fresh setback for David Cameron’s pledge to cut immigration sharply. | |
| The figures were released ahead of a speech by the Prime Minister in which he will set out new measures to curb immigration. | |
| They showed net migration – the difference between those arriving and those leaving - stood at 318,000 in the calendar year of 2014 – a rise of 109,000 since 2013. | |
| The data showed that 641,000 immigrants came to the UK in 2014. Migration from the EU – over which the Government has no control – rose by 67,000 to 268,000 and by 42,000 from outside the EU to 290,000. | |
| Ahead of the 2010 election Mr Cameron made a “no ifs, no buts” promise to reduce the figure to tens of thousands by 2015. That has now been downgraded by Theresa May to an “ambition” and an “aim”. |