article_snippet: The number of immigrants coming to Britain to work has fallen by 100,000 under the Coalition, new figures have revealed.
article_snippet: The revelation, from the respected Oxford-based Migration Observatory, comes despite a recent surge in migration which has blown apart David Cameron's election pledge to slash the number of immigrants coming to Britain.
article_snippet: David Cameron's pledged to reduce net migration –
article_snippet: the difference between people moving to Britain and those leaving each year – to less than 100,000 a year by 2015.
article_snippet: However, the respected Oxford-based Migration Observatory has revealed that taken across the five-year parliament there has been a 16 per cent fall in the number of foreign workers moving to the UK .
article_snippet: Madeleine Sumption, director of the respected Oxford-based Migration Observatory, said the migrant workforce was 'considerably smaller' now than five years ago.
article_snippet: However, at the same time there has been a 35 per cent fall in migrants from the eight eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004.
article_snippet: There has also been a drop of more than a quarter in those arriving from beyond Europe.
article_snippet: the respected Oxford-based Migration Observatory's data show that migrants' wages have risen on average by 17 per cent under the coalition, compared with the previous five years
article_snippet: David Cameron pledged to reduce net migration –
article_snippet: the difference between people moving to Britain and those leaving each year – to less than 100,000 a year by 2015 .
highlights_snippet: Figures published by the respected Oxford-based Migration Observatory .