Brexit campaign shifts focus to immigration in attack on Cameron
London
TWO of Brexit's leading campaigners attacked UK Prime Minister David Cameron for failing to keep his pledge to cut immigration, pushing the issue to the centre of the debate on whether Britain should leave the European Union.
Former London Mayor Boris Johnson and Justice Secretary Michael Gove said Mr Cameron, who is leading the drive for Britain to remain in the bloc, should accept that his Conservative Party's election pledge to cut annual immigration to tens of thousands has failed. "Voters were promised repeatedly at elections that net migration could be cut to tens of thousands," Mr Gove and Mr Johnson wrote in the letter, published in The Sunday Times newspaper. "This promise is plainly not achievable as long as the UK is a member of the EU …
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