Great Britain’s net migration estimate for the year ending June 2023 has been revised upwards to 906,000, almost 170,000 more than previously thought. That figure marks a record high.
Official data for the year ending December 2022 has also been revised upwards by more than 100,000.
Yet, according to reports, recent figures “show” net migration is falling and is down by 20% for the year ending June 2024. Even less sceptical Britons might find this hard to believe, given the previous errors.
All of this movement took place under the previous Conservative Party administration. New Tory leader Kemi Badenoch yesterday said that her party got it “wrong” on immigration, and committed to a “strict numerical cap”—something she refused to do at any point in her career before the speech.
Responding today, Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer accused the Tories of “running an open borders experiment.” His administration has yet to offer any indication that it is willing to end this experiment—in fact, quite the reverse appears to be true.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said that both the Conservatives and Labour have failed on the issue of immigration, and that Labour may, in fact, “be even worse.”
I’ve had enough of the lies and the deceptions. We’ve had years and years of it. Our lives are being changed. Our country is being changed irreversibly.
Journalist Allison Pearson—who was visited by the police on Remembrance Day because of a year-old post on Twitter/X—added that it was “disgraceful” so many migrants are being enabled to enter Britain, “where you can’t see a GP or a dentist, you wait two years for routine surgery, midwife services are dangerously poor, and hundreds of hotels contain undocumented young males.”
