Keir Starmer admits he MUST bring down immigration after shock figures show net inflows hitting a new peak of 906,000 in a year - and still running at 728,000 annually

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Posted on 11/28/2024 10:06:58 AM PST by george76

Keir Starmer admitted he must bring down immigration today after shock figures showed the annual record has been smashed again.

The PM insisted Britain can no longer be a 'soft touch' after huge revisions to official data showed net inflows were 906,000 in the year to June 2023.

Arrivals in the 12 months to June this year were 728,000 higher than those leaving the country. In itself that was almost as much as the previous long-term immigration record.

But the bar has been dramatically shifted upwards by the Office for National Statistics, with net migration for the year to June 2023 now thought to have been 166,000 above the initial estimate of 740,000.

A similar revision has been made for net migration in the year to December 2023, which was initially believed to be 685,000 and is now put at 866,000, an increase of 181,000.

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The five biggest sources of immigration have been India, Nigeria, Pakistan, China and Zimbabwe. In the year to June 2023, 268,000 arrivals came from India alone.

Kemi Badenoch used a major speech last night to insist the Tories would not allow Britain to be treated like a 'hotel' for migrants.

But Labour claimed it is 'clearing up the mess' left by the former government.

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The cost of the UK's asylum system has risen to £5 billion, the highest level of spending on record and up by more than a third in a year

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The number of asylum seekers being housed temporarily in UK hotels was 35,651 at the end of September - up from 29,585 at the end of June despite the Labour government pledging to stop using the facilities;

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Huge migration surge added almost a million people to UK population in a year

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1 posted on 11/28/2024 10:06:58 AM PST by george76

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