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Living standards have fallen. Net after tax earnings have gone down, and so have the numbers of self-employed, and participation in the labour market.

Rishi Sunak is facing a chorus of demands from backbenchers to reduce net migration after figures showed it has hit a record 745,000, some three times the level it was before Brexit.

Suella Braverman has described today’s record net migration figures as a “slap in the face to the British public” as she said Rishi Sunak “must act now” to bring the numbers down.

Good evening. A Gaza truce and hostage release will start on Friday morning, Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesman said. Elsewhere, net migration has hit a new record high, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Rishi Sunak is facing demands from within his Cabinet to crack down on visas for foreign NHS and care workers after net migration hit a record high.

Even by the standards of recent years, the latest immigration statistics were extraordinary. Net migration to the UK was a provisional 672,000 in the year to June 2023, an increase from 607,000 in the year to June 2022. Perhaps more remarkably, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said net migration was even higher in 2022, at 745,000, than previously thought. Visas granted to people coming from outside the EU have surged, making a mockery of the idea that Brexit would lead to immigration fa

Jeremy Hunt made a cruel but still quite interesting point in his Autumn Statement speech this week. Labour, he said, grows the economy by importing foreign workers and doesn’t much care about unemployed Brits. Conservatives, by contrast, use “the potential we have right here at home”. He’s quite right to say that immigration lets governments ignore social problems by recruiting industrious workers from abroad. He’s right to talk about it as an economic drug, b...

A major shift in the behaviour of foreign workers and students has been blamed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for a massive underestimate of net migration.

The migration figures published on Thursday are extraordinary. In the 12 months to June, an astonishing 1.2 million people moved to the UK, the vast majority arriving from outside of the EU. Net migration stands at 672,000, three times higher than its pre-Brexit peak. Given the Conservative Party’s 2019 manifesto commitment to reduce net migration, these numbers are a body blow to any claim that we are keeping our promise to voters.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the updated data replaces the previous estimate of 606,000, after making revisions to reflect "unexpected patterns" in migrant behaviour.