Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to announce strict new measures designed to control immigration to Britain as new official figures show increasing levels of migration.
Mr. Cameron plans to speak on immigration controls on Thursday after the Office for National Statistics showed a “statistically significant” increase in migration.
The ONS says new figures show net long-term migration into Britain surged to roughly 318,000 in 2014, up from 209,000 the year before.
The figure represents the estimated number of people entering the country on a long-term basis minus the number departing.
Immigration has become an increasingly controversial political issue in Britain in recent years as the number of new arrivals has increased.
Government efforts to lower migration levels have repeatedly fallen short.
