A temporary limit on the number of non-EU migrants allowed into the UK is to be announced by the home secretary.Theresa May has said she will limit the number of workers to 24,100 - down around 5% - between now and April 2011.
The government says its measures will eventually bring net migration down to the levels of the 1990s.Business Secretary Vince Cable defended the cap but said it must be implemented flexibly, while Labour said it was "fraught with difficulty".Reducing net annual migration was a key Tory election pledge which survived the coalition agreement with the Liberal Democrats, who had previously opposed a cap.
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