Net migration into the UK has hit a record high of 336,000 in the year up to June 2015, representing a 34 per cent increase in the space of a year, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

A total of 636,000 immigrated to the United Kingdom in the year ending June 2015, while the number leaving was around 300,000.

But once again the devil is in the detail. There were a whopping 862,000 National Insurance number (NINo) registrations to adult overseas nationals in the year ending September 2015. While some of this can be attributed to new registrations of longer-standing residents, the International Passenger Survey, upon which the UK’s immigration figures are based, are noted for being inaccurate.

Of the new arrivals, 45 per cent were not citizens of European Union (EU) countries while 42 per cent were from the EU, marking another sharp increase in EU-based immigration.

UKIP Leader Nigel Farage told Breitbart London: “These record high figures represent a continuation of the government’s complete failure to control immigration. David Cameron’s “tens of thousands” pledge is now in tatters. 

“It is clear that only by voting to Leave the European Union in the forthcoming referendum can we have a system of controlled immigration at sensible levels.

“Just how can this or any government plan effectively for the future with our population rising so quickly and with open borders meaning we have no control over who can and can’t come to Britain each year? A complete open door to the whole of the EU is madness.”

UKIP Migration Spokesman Steven Woolfe MEP said: “In yesterday’s autumn statement, the Government blew through its own welfare cap when it U-turned on tax credits. Today, with new net migration numbers as high as ever, its promise to control immigration and bring net migration below the 100,000 no longer has any credibility.

“Instead of challenging the government palpable failure Labour’s Shadow Chancellor prefers cheap stunts by holding up a copy of Mao’s Red Book when the Red Book here should be referencing is the Treasury’s Budget 2015 Red book. 

“Unlike the Labour Party, UKIP judges the performance of the government by the rules that it sets for itself. On migration, the government’s attitude is completely contradictory. While we welcome the fact that it finally accepts that controlling migration is unequivocally central developing a sustainable economy, the government refuses to put Britain’s EU free movement of people obligations at the heart of its so-called ‘renegotiation strategy’. In fact while we remain inside the EU, we cannot control migration.

“The government has failed to control net migration, it has failed to control its own welfare cap, it is doomed to fail on controlling welfare benefits in its EU negotiations. On immigration the government is a long time failure and cannot be trusted to manage our borders or policies.”