The Office for National Statistics said that a measure for the difference between the number of people arriving and leaving the country reached a higher than previously thought peak in the 12 months to June last year
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to hold an urgent press conference at 3pm in Downing Street, following the release of a significant batch of data on migration. The Prime Minister's spokesman had earlier accused the Tories of treating "Britain as an experiment in open borders" after revised estimates revealed a record 906,000 net migration to the UK in 2023.
A similar revision has been made to the provisional figure for net migration in the year to December 2023, which was initially estimated to be 685,000 but is now believed to be 866,000 - an increase of 181,000. In addition, separate data from the Home Office reveals that the cost of the UK's asylum system has risen to a record £5 billion, representing a more than 30% increase in just one year.
The Prime Minister's official spokesperson did not comment on whether Labour's approach would be more stringent than the Tories', but emphasised that the Government was "elected on a mandate to change the country and put the people's priorities at the heart of delivery, and that means bringing down these record high levels of legal migration and tackling the root causes behind it". , reports the Mirror.
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