article_snippet: Prime Minster had promised to get the figure below 100,000 –
article_snippet: David Cameron has conceded defeat on David Cameron but David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May insist he and will try to hit the sub-100,000 target if he and stay in power.
article_snippet: We will have to drop the sub-100,000 target,’ A friend of Mr Osborne told the Times newspaper.
article_snippet: It would not be possible to achieve It without damaging We economy quite severely.
article_snippet: I’m afraid that the sub-100,000 target has proved to be a mistake.
article_snippet: ’ Baroness Warsi, the former foreign office minister, warned that the failure to meet the sub-100,000 target risked undermining the Conservatives’ wider credibility.
article_snippet: ‘If you set yourself unrealistic targets you are setting yourself up to fail and, in the long term, turn the whole thing into a bigger issue by fuelling the perception that the Government can’t get a grip,’ she said.
article_snippet: Dropping the sub-100,000 target will fuel the feeling among Eurosceptic backbenchers that the only way to cut immigration is to leave the European Union.
highlights_snippet: David Cameron had promised to get the figure below 100,000 4 years ago .
  
highlights_snippet: The PM has conceded defeat but will try to get migration under 100,000 .
  