Net migration hits highest level on record
Net migration to Britain was an estimated 330,000 in the year to March - the highest figure on record, official figures have confirmed.
Net migration to Britain was an estimated 330,000 in the year to March - the highest figure on record, official figures have confirmed.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has said the record net migration figures show the prime minister "needs to stop the dishonesty over his failed immigration target and replace it with a sensible plan instead which properly separates immigration and asylum".
She added: "All his overblown rhetoric has achieved is a decline in public confidence as the electorate are faced with more broken promises."
One of the first Romanian migrants to arrive in the UK, after curbs preventing them from working were lifted, has spoken about his new life.
Levels of immigration into the UK could be about to hit their highest ever point, as the latest figures are due to be released this morning.