Yes, Cameron knew all about it:
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Civil servants told David Cameron in 2012 that it was "impossible" for the government to meet its flagship immigration pledge, the PM's former director of strategy has claimed.
Steve Hilton said Mr Cameron was told "explicitly and directly" that EU free movement rules meant net migration could not be reduced below 100,000.
The target featured in the Tories' election manifesto last year.
A Downing Street spokesman said: "We simply do not recognise this story."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politic...endum-36582391
I quite believe it but whether he was lying or not, it was never a promise he was going to be able to meet as the net migration figures quite clearly show. He was either telling porkies or completely misunderstood the forces at work within Europe and either way it doesn't say much for him. I fear we're going to be stuck in an era of politics in which our leaders just lie through their teeth when it suits, knowing that by the time the truth becomes apparent, the votes will have been cast. Nice eh?...