January 6 2010

A cross party group of twenty MPs and peers have called on all parties to commit to cap the UK population at 70 million.

Projections indicate that the number of UK residents could exceed 70m by 2025, a volume that the group fear will impact negatively on public services and quality of life.

Currently the main parties are opposed to an upper limit, believing one to be unrealistic and counter productive although the Tories would introduce an annual cap and Labour have implemented a points based migration system.

The government believes that by tightening access to student visas and reducing the number of professions which can recruit from outside Europe that the 70m figure is unlikely to materialise in any event.

Net migration fell by a third in 2008, attributed to the return of eastern European migrants, but remains above levels seen in the early 1990s.

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