The
Home Secretary had high hopes for curbing immigration.
Theresa May had better hope that she was wrong. “People will judge us on
whether we have done what we said we would do. What people will say at the next
election is, ‘Have they made a difference? Did they actually get on with doing
what they promised?’ ” Mrs May was talking about that
immigration promise: to bring net migration down to
under 100,000 “over the term of a parliament”. Four years on, new ONS figures show how far away that ambition is: net
migration rose by 58,000 in the year to September 2013, to 212,000. Telegraph.
