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The Home Secretary confirms new aim to cut net migration to the “tens of thousands” by 2020 after the previous goal was scuppered in Coalition.

A renewed target to cut net migration to the tens of thousands by 2020 has been set by the Conservative Government, the Home Secretary Theresa May has confirmed.

May’s comments to the Commons’ all-party home affairs select committee demonstrated a significant change in tone after the original target, which was set in 2010, was downgraded to an “ambition” in the forerunning to the General Election.

Mrs May told MPs that the Government had maintained “the same target” and suggested that it would be easier to meet because they were no longer in coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

The earlier net migration goal was veered off course in the final two years of the Coalition due to a surge in arrivals from the European Union.

“We have the target of the tens of thousands,” Mrs May said.

“It’s the same target. The aim is to meet it by the end of the five year Parliament.”

“It is certainly the case that there are certain measures that we will be able to put into the Immigration Bill we are bringing forward that we would have wished to introduce prior to the election that we weren’t able to because we were in coalition government.”

David Cameron, the Prime Minister, lay blame on his former Liberal Democrat colleagues for hindering a crackdown.

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