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Falling migration might not be something for the Tories to celebrate

1 May 2024

9:49 PM

1 May 2024

9:49 PM

The good news for the Conservatives is that immigration is down. It looks as if the net migration figures will not be returning to the 745,000 measured in 2022 in the immediate future. Now the bad news: this decline isn’t so much thanks to a drop in small boat arrivals – although they did fall from 45,774 in 2022 to 29,437 in 2023.

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