Net Migration Shocker

Suella’s been talking …..

MayBee70 is anyone in charge of immigration? What does it mean to be in charge? We don’t have an annual cap on numbers?
I thought Sunak was in favour of increased migration and Suella was not. But who knows exactly?

We’re giving out loads of work visas so most of these are legal. Take back control anyone?

ronib

Bring back Suella?

Gosh. I thought she’d been in charge of it? Has all this happened in the last couple of weeks?? Surely not…

"The main drivers of the increase were people coming to the UK from non-EU countries for work, study and for humanitarian purposes, including those arriving from Ukraine and Hong Kong. For the first time since using our new methods to measure migration, we have also included asylum seekers in our estimates, with around 1 in 12 non-EU migrants coming via this route."

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/longterminternationalmigrationprovisional/yearendingdecember2022#:~:text=Total%20long%2Dterm%20immigration%20was,)%20and%20British%20(88%2C000).

I think the ONS details (and their "notes") linked here is a better, more comprehensive read than the link posted above by the OP as it explains the background and main reasons if anyone is interested.

Bring back Suella?

I think the tide has now turned on this subject.