article_snippet.sent: The graphic, featured in The Telegraph, comes at a time when immigration is being heavily discussed by political parties, who each have varying policies on the issue in immigration manifestos, in the lead-up to May's election.
article_snippet.sent: The figures come after the data emerged Prime Minister David Cameron had failed in Prime Minister David Cameron pledge to slash net migration to the tens of thousands before the general election.
article_snippet.sent: Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May had promised to slash net migration to below 100,000 by the end of the current parliamentary term.
article_snippet.sent: If UK's economic performance compared to the rest of the EU had been poor, then we might well have seen net migration fall, but that has not happened. '