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Originally Posted by nomadking
BBC, The Guardian, The Times, etc.
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I subscribe to the Times, and read the BBC news site most days, and I can guarantee you that the drop in Net Migration was not reported with the prominence that rises were (front page/website landing page).
Felel free to show otherwise…
Amusingly, one of the major reasons for net migration rising was Brexit…
https://www.thetimes.com/article/501...d5a011efde7b3b
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One of the reasons for this considerable increase in the number and proportion of the population being foreign-born is immigration changes after Brexit, which led to a surge in immigration from outside the EU. These people tend to stay in the UK longer and are more likely to settle long-term.
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Another interesting point
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Modelling by James Bowes, a researcher at the University of Warwick, suggests that the fresh immigration restrictions announced by Sir Keir Starmer’s government last year will push net migration to below zero as an estimated 45,000 more people leave the UK than arrive over the course of 2026. The last time the UK recorded net-minus migration was in 1993.
The dramatic decline in immigration has been driven by the increasingly restrictive measures announced by Conservative and Labour governments since 2023 as they responded to growing public anger at the scale of change. It has significantly slowed immigration but also led to the biggest outflow of people leaving the UK since 1923, and 693,000 left last year alone.
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