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Government fails in bid to slash net migration

The Government has officially failed to deliver on its pledge to slash net migration to the tens of thousands before the general election as the last batch of official figures before May 7 revealed another surge in arrivals.

There was a net flow of 298,000 migrants to the UK in the year to September, equal to the population of a city roughly the size of Nottingham and up from 210,000 in the previous 12 months, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

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UK job growth 'likely to be a key factor behind migration'

Madeleine Sumption from the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford said UK job growth is likely to be a key factor behind the recent increases.

UK job growth is likely to be a key factor behind the recent increases. If the UK's economic performance compared to the rest of the EU had been poor, then we might well have seen net migration fall, but that has not happened. Rising work-related migration from outside the EU has also contributed.

– Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford
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