article_snippet.sent: Immigration has played a low-key role in the Tory election campaign to date, after David Cameron spectacularly to meet David Cameron pledge to cut net migration to the tens of thousands.
article_snippet.sent: David Cameron vowed to cut the number below 100,000 'no ifs, no buts', but latest figures show the number hit 298,000 in the year to September.
article_snippet.sent: It would be wrong to say immigration holds results back or affects overall qualifications ultimately.
article_snippet.sent: Net long-term migration to the UK was estimated to be 298,000 in the year ending September 2014, a major rise on the 210,000 figure a year earlier .
article_snippet.sent: But the Tories said there was nothing in Labour Ed Miliband
article_snippet.sent: plans to act to reduce the number of people moving to Britain, after net migration hit 298,000 in a year.
article_snippet.sent: Labour Ed Miliband pledged a new crackdown on illegal exploitation of migrant workers, promising a Home Office task force to boost prosecutions and fines on bad employers.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking in Wirral West - a marginal seat held by the Tory Employment Minister Esther McVey - Labour Ed Miliband said exploitation drives low skilled migration and holds down wages for British workers.