New UK immigration figures show net arrivals hit yet another record high of over 900,000 in 2023, but Brexit leader Nigel Farage warns against accepting claims migration is falling this year, citing a history of underestimated initial statistics.
Britain’s national statistician has released a new tranche of migration figures and revised previous years’ estimates, revealing the year to June 2023 hit another all-time record for arrivals. Net migration, being the total number of all long-term (non-tourist) arrivals minus departures from the country stood at 906,000 people, a remarkable number for a country with a population of — officially, at least — a little more than 68 million permanent residents.
The new year to June 2023 figure is another revision up for the statistic, taking it from the already historically high number of 672,000 claimed by the Office for National…
