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Worry about social change and pressure on public services, but that can rub up against a demand forforeign workers and student arrivals. immigration has long been a hot button issue in british politics, but promises to bring numbers down have frequently ended up at odds with reality, and the conservatives may notjust be worried about being squeezed by their own record on this topic, but now an old political foe as well. mr farage, are you standing? well, we'll find out in a moment, won't we? nigel farage yesterday announced he's standing for parliament and leading reform uk. he says net migrat...

About migration and some think about it as a more important issue than others do. harjab bhangal is an immigration lawyer in london. he believes none of the parties have presented a viable solution to deal with immigation. it could be an amalgamation of perhaps everything. first of all, a processing centre in france like the greens propose in order, just like italy have signed a deal with albania, in order to stop people, at least some of them, journey across the channel and to offer a safe route in order to apply for asylum. the other one is to talk to businesses and sectors, talk about numbe...

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Poverty through measures like the scottish child payment, and by supporting development in the economy and the work we are undertaking with renewable energy we can generate the boost to employment and growth that is significant and which we have demonstrated already by improving the performance of the scottish economy since we came to office, so these will be the foundations of the steps that we take to push the economy and to make sure we can invest in eradicating child poverty. sure we can invest in eradicating child poverty-— sure we can invest in eradicating child ove . ., ., ., child po...

Let's ta ke let's take a look at the latest figures released on immigrationjust before the general election was called. net migration in the uk, the difference between a number of people arriving and leaving, hit 10% last year after hitting a record high in 2022. in the year to december 2023, the number stood at 685,000 according to the office for national statistics. that's down from 76a,000 the year before. but the 0ns said it's "too early to say if this is the start of a new downward trend". the biggest driver of migration last year was work. ben brindle is a researcher at the migration obs...