Daily Mail
May 11, 2014
David Cameron today admitted voters are ‘frustrated’ at the pace of action to tackle immigration into Britain.
The Prime Minister said voters wanted the government to go further and faster in curbing the numbers of people arriving in the UK.
It comes as ministers prepare for figures – to be released on the day of the European elections – which are expected to show net migration from within the European Union has overtaken arrivals from the rest of the world.
Mr Cameron has promised to reduce net migration – the difference between the numbers arriving and those leaving – to less than 100,000 by 2015.
But after falling in the early days of the coalition it has started to rise again, fuelled by growing numbers of people arriving from the rest of Europe.
Ukip has stepped up pressure on the government with an aggressive campaign, warning the government can do nothing about the issue while Britain remains in the EU.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage has boasted that he will trigger a ‘political earthquake’ by winning the European Parliament elections on May 22, pushing the Tories into third.
Now it has emerged that within weeks new figures will show how net migration from within the EU is responsible for the majority of the population rise linked to immigration.
In the year to September net migration stood at 212,000, which the Office for National Statistics said was a ‘statistically significant increase’ from 154,000 in the previous year.