Starmer: Immigration is off the scale – previous government ran country with open borders
Starmer: Immigration is off the scale
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published its latest estimate on net migration to the UK.
The figure in the year to June 2024 728,000 – but it was the previous annual figure, revised upwards to a record 906,000, that was the big surprise.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer accuses the previous Conservative government of running an “open borders experiment” after new figures showed record net migration. It is “off the scale”, he says.
Net migration to the UK was 906,000 in the year up to June 2023 – far higher than previous estimates.
About 1.3 million people came to live in the UK in this period, while 414,000 people left.
Net migration – the difference between the number of people leaving and arriving – then fell to 728,000 in the 12 months to June 2024.
The historically high levels are down to the war in Ukraine and post-Brexit visa rules, while numbers have reduced in the past year due to tighter visa rules brought in under Rishi Sunak, it found
PM vows to reform the rules and to tackle the problem.
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