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11.11.2012. Home secretary Theresa May is facing a growing coalition revolt about the government's controversial target to slash net immigration, amid growing business anger about the impact of the policy on economic growth.
The promise to cut net immigration to "tens of thousands" was
a key plank of the Tories' election platform, but a cross-party alliance of
business secretary Vince Cable and universities minister David Willetts is
urging David Cameron to force May to water down the pledge.
The chancellor, George Osborne, is also increasingly sympathetic to
business concerns about the regime, according to Whitehall insiders, who say
the prime minister held a meeting with May in late October to discuss whether
the target could be gracefully abandoned.
