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Downing Street suggested yesterday that the Tories’ target for reducing net migration to tens of thousands has finally been ditched.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said 270,000 a year would be ‘the logical place to start’ when asked what threshold the Government wanted to get numbers below.
It is the first time Rishi Sunak’s government has put a rough figure on what it will try to get net migration to fall below.
Asked if reducing it to tens of thousands was still possible, the PM’s spokesman distanced himself from the target, saying ministers weren’t going to put a ‘specific number’ on it.
But they insisted that Mr Sunak remained ‘committed to lowering overall migration, that hasn’t changed’. It comes after net migration was this week forecast to settle at around 245,000 a year in the long-term despite Mr Sunak’s pledge to reduce overall immigration.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said 270,000 a year would be ‘the logical place to start’ when asked what threshold the Government wanted to get numbers below
The Office for Budget Responsibility revised its projection for long-term net migration – the difference between people
