article_snippet: Home Secretary Theresa May, pictured in Downing Street today, insisted the net migration target was 'important', even though latest data shows the figure hit 300,000 last year .
article_snippet: Home Secretary Theresa May insisted the net migration target was 'important', even though latest data shows the figure hit 300,000 last year - three times what David Cameron promised.
article_snippet: It is important because it is about not just dealing with those coming into the system but also about making sure that those people who shouldn't live here actually leave.'
article_snippet: It affects issues around jobs, questions of illegal working, access to housing, education, the NHS. '
article_snippet: It touches all government departments and I think that's the thing that's important.'
highlights_snippet: Home Secretary says target is 'important' despite being woefully missed .
  