article_snippet: Last week, however, the number moving to Britain Britain exceeded the number leaving by a record margin of nearly 300,000.
article_snippet: 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: The latest figures, which put net migration at 298,000 for the year ending in last September, would have exceeded 100,000 even without immigration from within Europe.
article_snippet: When Mr Cameron entered Downing Street in May 2010 net migration was running at 244,000.
highlights_snippet: But the number moving to Britain has exceeded those leaving the country .
  