May could meet net migration target – by crashing the economy | Alan Travis

Theresa May has confirmed that the pledge to cut net migration to the tens of thousands will be in the Conservative manifesto.Theresa May’s refusal to drop her undelivered target to cut net migration to below 100,000 is deeply corrosive of British politics, because she knows it is a target that is unlikely ever to be met.Downing Street aides privately acknowledge that having failed to get net migration down to “the tens of thousands” for six consecutive years – net migrat