Net migration: Is it really out of control?

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🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Net migration figures hit more than 900,000 in the year up to June 2023. And fell by 20 percent this year, down to 730,000. It was only a decade ago that Prime Minister David Cameron was talking about bringing immigration into the "tens of thousands". So, where did things go so badly wrong? And why after the Brexit referendum and the pledge to 'Take Back Control' did Boris Johnson's administration see immigration rise to a million people?

Today we ask new Labour MP, Jake Richardson - who has Reform snapping at his heels - what the Labour plan is? And if the government is prepared to issue fewer student visas if that brings the core number down?

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:08.1	This is a global player original podcast.
0:11.5	We need to talk about immigration.
0:14.3	The truth is that for nearly 30 years, mass migration has been far, far too high, under all governments, by all parties.
0:24.4	And not just here. Too high all across the Western world. And it can't continue. We need a new
0:31.6	approach. That's the Conservative leader, Kemi Badernock, but she could be any one of the UK party leaders today because
0:39.8	they're all pretty much saying the same thing about the latest net migration figures. This time
0:47.1	round, the buck stops with the last 14 years of Tory rule, but it won't always be that way.
0:55.0	The Labour Party may be able to enjoy Tory discomfort today, but next year the migration figures
1:03.0	will be labours. And if everyone is agreed that the numbers are too high, then what are you going
1:09.7	to do about it to change things?
1:12.1	Welcome to the Newsagents.
1:16.6	The Newsagents.
1:18.0	It's John.
1:18.8	It's Emily.
1:19.4	It's Lewis.
1:20.0	And we should just take you through these figures which have dropped from the ONS today.
1:23.6	It's a little bit complicated because they not only refer to the year up to June this year,
1:28.3	but they've also gone back and heavily revised, really significantly revised, the figures up to June last year as well.
1:36.3	So the headline figure is that the net migration for the year up to June 2023 is now over 900,000,
1:45.0	which is significantly more than thought before.
1:48.0	We can talk about some of the reasons as to why that is.
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