New figures showing net migration to the UK last year increased to a record level of more than 600,000 have been seized on as the latest example of broken Tory pledges in an area where PMs come under relentless rightwing pressure.
David Cameron, May 2010
Heading into the 2010 general election, the opposition leader promised “to limit net immigration to ‘tens of thousands’ per year” rather than the hundreds of thousands. He told the BBC:
