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    Net migration predicted to fall by up to 250,000 in major boost for Starmer
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    Net migration predicted to fall by up to 250,000 in major boost for Starmer

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    1. corbynista2029 on

      It’s not going to be enough for the Rupert Lowes of the world. If we get net migration down to zero, they’ll call for deportation because there are too many Pakistanis, Indians, Nigerians, Afghans living in the UK.

    2. Confident_Tart_6694 on

      But the resulting lower GDP is surely a “HUGE blow for Rachael Reeves” 😂

    3. PurahsHero on

      HUGE blow for Labour as farmers, NHS expect labour shortage due to fewer immigrants – The Daily Mail, probably.

    4. OldLondon on

      Jesus people are never happy are they.  Brining it down 250k after a year in charge is an amazing announcement. You’d wet your pants if Riot Nige had achieved that

    5. High-Tom-Titty on

      It’s not just about the raw numbers, it’s the type of people leaving and arriving.

    6. Dapper_Otters on

      It’s quite a feat to cut it by a third one year into the term, so well done.

      Same again next year please.

    7. Willing-Sea-2897 on

      Reducing migration from 700,000 to 500,000 in just a year through a tougher and more restrictive visa process is quite impressive.

      I imagine when they implement the new immigration reform the drop in net migration will be even more stark. I don’t know what polling says about what number of immigrants per year the British population find acceptable but I imagine net migration at a 150,000 per year or lower would be relatively acceptable to a majority of the population, especially considering it was nearly at a million not too long ago.

      Now only if Labour can also manage illegal migration via the small boats which isn’t a large amount but a bad look and far trickier to solve. If they succeed in that they can effectively wipe out the most important issue for Reform.

    8. ShondaVanda on

      Gotta hand it to him, he’s rather coming after Reform’s milkshake isn’t he?

      It’s a shame he’ll never drink enough of it to get them to vote for him.

    9. Tits_McgeeD on

      Another thing the Tories were pretending to fix and was expected to take years and years with who knows how much tax payer money they would have to give to their friends.

      Labour is on a roll, making new trade deals and spring up the NHS while dealing with immigration. Tories weeping they’re almost wiped out for their massive incompetence and blatant corruption.

    10. Askefyr on

      This is your reminder that net population growth in the UK has averaged between 0.5% and 1% pretty reliably for the last 20 years. The *share* of the population that are immigrants may be rising, but the overall amount of people has been a steady curve. More people are dying than are being born, and people are leaving the country as well.

    11. SkillForce13 on

      What is the actual source of this immigration? We know it’s not illegal immigration, and the skilled worker visas are notoriously difficult to get for most foreigners.

      How did we get to this point? How are so many unskilled workers allowed to enter the country, especially after Brexit?

    12. TheChattyRat on

      Very good progress a pity the rabid farage fans won’t be satisfied unless net is negative they’d also be the first the cry when there’s no one left to look after them in care homes.

    13. Mongolian_Hamster on

      Yet the Russian bot controlled europe_sub says otherwise.

      They’re literally calling for ICE style movement in the the UK.

    14. Dune56 on

      Getting tired of these “x in blow/boost to Starmer/Reeves” headlines every day.

    15. Bartellomio on

      Doesn’t matter. The media, which is mostly controlled by the alt right, will still either (A) ignore it, (B) pretend it’s not enough, (C) lie and say he’s letting more immigrants in.

    17. Captain-Starshield on

      I’m sure this will raise wages and living standards like the Farage crowd said it would, right?

      Just like how last time they said Brexit would, and look how that turned out!

    20. FaceMace87 on

      It doesn’t matter anyway, those who care about this the most will just call these fake numbers and find a way to turn this into a big load of nothing.

    21. Astriania on

      That’s positive I suppose but it still leaves it at *record levels never seen before 2020*. Remember that the 2015 levels were seen as being so much too high that people voted to leave the EU in order to be able to control them. Any policy that leaves net immigration higher than it was in 2015, as an absolute minimum reduction, is a catastrophic failure.

      Especially when one of the biggest issues in the cost of living is house prices. It’s insane to be adding hundreds of thousands of people to the country and therefore adding that demand to housing.

      Being slightly less shit than the utterly abominable 2019-24 Conservatives is not a success.

    22. JimFranklin1966 on

      They are massaging figures, immigration has been positive and above 800,000 annually for more than a decade. Both the Tory and labour governments have singly failed in their attempts to control this. Both have used the illegal migration as a distraction, but their policies have allowed the national population to grow at a rate that they failed to create the infrastructure for.

      It is not Labour alone in this, it is all our politicians over the last 50 years. There failure feeds the like to Farage and the loony right.

    23. TetchyTechy on

      is that because all illegal will now come under eu citizens label…. he must think people are gullible idiots, lets be honest the country is under siege people are just too scared to say anything, he will say anything to save his neck and not admit the deal he accepted is an undemocratic surrender with fluff and not much inthe way of benefit to the uk