Tories will keep pledge to cut migration to 'tens of thousands'

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Tories will keep pledge to cut migration to 'tens of thousands'
    From the section UK Politics

The Conservatives will once again promise to cut net migration to the "tens of thousands" in their election manifesto, the BBC understands.

On Sunday, Home Secretary Amber Rudd refused to say whether the pledge - which was in the 2010 and 2015 Tory manifestos - would be repeated.

But the BBC understands it will definitely be in the 2017 manifesto.

The target, set by David Cameron in 2010, has never been met and recent figures put net migration at 273,000.

Continued: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39840503

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Emigration is the act of leaving one's resident country with the intent to settle elsewhere. Conversely, immigration describes the movement of persons into one country from another. Both are acts of migration across national boundaries.