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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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UKIP says Govt should be 'ashamed' over migration

UKIP's Steven Woolfe MEP said "the Government should be be ashamed" of its failure to keep control of immigration numbers

The Government should be ashamed of its abject failure to keep control of the constantly rising numbers of those arriving here. This Government's policy is fatally holed beneath the water line and is sinking fast.

No Government can rationally plan to build the services required to cope with these numbers. The schools, the hospitals, the houses, the roads cannot be provided at such a speed, the capital costs required are huge and burden on the taxpayer will be even more strained.

– Steven Woolfe MEP, the UKIP Migration spokesman
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