Spring going to be a lot better, says Chris Whitty, but still no timeline for lockdown exit
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15 January 2021 ⢠6:18pm
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The UK is very likely to be in a much-improved situation by the spring, although no exit strategy from the current national lockdown has yet been announced.Â
Professor Chris Whitty told a Downing Street press conference that whilst is it not the case that suddenly in spring it is all over , there is an expectation that things will be substantially better than they are at the moment .Â
He said: The hope is that is a kind of reasonable timeframe to be thinking about. But if we try to put a hard stop on this we will be caught out by events.
Number of overseas nationals leaving UK could have reached 1.3 million
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Up to 1.3 million overseas nationals have left the UK over the past year, with almost 700,000 non-UK born workers having vacated London alone, according to a study.
The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence found an “unprecedented” fall in the number of foreign-born residents in the UK when it applied an ‘adjustment factor’ to Labour Force Survey statistics.
Migrant workers
Its estimates relate to the change in the population between July- September 2019 to July-September 2020. The Office for National Statistics’ Labour Force Survey, however, estimates that 893,000 non-UK residents have left the UK.