Calls to drop students from migration cap rebuffed by Downing Street

Downing Street has rebuffed calls from senior Conservatives to remove students from the UK's net migration target.Theresa May is resisting stripping out students for fear of being accused of fiddling the figures to hit her target of reducing immigration to the tens of thousands.Despite lobbying from newly-elected Scottish Tory MPs as revealed by Sky News last month, their efforts to change the way migration is counted appear to have faltered.