Britain pledges crackdown on immigration

Friday, 22/05/2015

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London: Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday pledged a crackdown on immigration into the UK after latest data showed the figures were at their highest level for a decade.

The latest quarterly migration figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showed that net immigration from outside the European Union is rising almost as strongly as from within Europe, with a surge of 318,000 in 2014. It flies in the face of Cameron’s election pledge of getting net immigration figures down, leading to a new immigration bill to be unveiled as part of the Queen’s Speech on May 27 – when the business of the new government is officially announced in the House of Commons. The worrying trend for the government would be a continuing fall in the number of overseas students from India, which continued its downward trend with an 8 per cent fall in 2014. But Cameron expressed his determination to not “cave in” on tough immigration targets, blaming former coalition partners Liberal Democrats for delays in implementing tougher rules. “Today’s figures show how far we have to go to reach our goal. Frankly, in the last Government the Home Secretary was very keen on controlling immigration, I was very keen on controlling immigration, but sometimes when we got to the Department for Business [headed by Lib Dem minister Vince Cable] we got a rather unwelcome response,” he said, during a speech at the Home Office here. “We now have a team of ministers in every single department that are dedicated to delivering this agenda, whether they are in the Home Office, or the Health Department, or the Education Department or wherever else,” he stressed. Cable, a veteran Lib Dem MP who lost his seat at the general election earlier this month, had frequently clashed with his Conservative Cabinet colleagues over the issue of business-related and student migration into the country. The Conservatives had pledged before the 2010 election to reduce numbers coming into the UK to less than 100,000, a target they have failed to meet as it remains nearly three times that target figure. Central to a new crackdown now are plans to seize the wages of illegal workers as proceeds of crime. The Liberal Democrats retaliated and warned that “not all immigration is bad”. Lib Dem peer Lord Paddick said, “If she [Home Secretary Theresa May] was serious about cracking down on illegal immigration, she should concentrate on what works and not tar all immigrants with the same brush.”

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