article_snippet: In a document published alongside the Budget, OBR said OBR previous forecasts had been ‘underpinned by the assumption’ that net migration – the measure of how many people have come into Britain minus those who have left – would be 105,000 by 2019.
article_snippet: Instead, it said net migration would ‘tend towards 165,000 in the long term’.
article_snippet: But last month the politically-sensitive net migration figure hit 300,000 – fuelled in large part by net migration from outside the EU of 190,000.
article_snippet: When Mr Cameron entered Downing Street in May 2010 net migration was running at 244,000.
highlights_snippet: But OBR said net migration would ‘tend towards 165,000 in the long term’ 