Shortly before Britain went to the polls for the 2010 General Election, then Opposition Leader David Cameron released the Conservative Party’s manifesto, pledging to cut net migration into the U.K. from 200,000 people per year to “tens of thousands of people per year”.
At the time, polling showed that immigration was the second most important issue to the voting public, with the exception of the economy, which, given the challenges Britain was facing with the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, was perhaps unsurprising.
Prime Minister Cameron would then go on to affirm his commitment to cutting migration into Britain to tens of thousands on multiple occasions, both during his Prime Ministership and again at the 2015 General Election.
