The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecast this week that net immigration numbers are expected to remain in the hundreds of thousands for the foreseeable future, contrary to longstanding promises by Britain’s ruling Conservative Party.
on that spring list projectionthe Office of Budget Responsibility said net immigration will remain at about 245,000 annually through at least fiscal year 2026/27, revising estimates of 40,000 more immigrants compared to the previous release in November.
Alongside an increase in asylum claims from Hong Kong and Ukraine, the Bureau of Statistics said the post-Brexit points-based immigration system introduced by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson was a key factor in the continued high immigration wave. pointed out. Set firm annual caps for immigration.
However, Alp Mehmet, chairman of Migration Watch UK, suggested in a comment sent to Breitbart London that annual arrivals could actually be higher over the next few years. . “OBR’s assumption that net immigration will settle at 245,000 a year is unfounded.
“The projection of about 250,000 by 2026 is illusory. It also suggests that the government is not going to figure out the scale of immigration as the public wants,” he explained.
“Failure to do so will only lead to greater and unsustainable population growth, much like the one that drove eight million people in just 20 years.”
Britain’s foreign-born population has increased by almost 400,000 since the census https://t.co/opJAZA11Ma
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 28, 2022
Opposition despite many voters supporting the Conservatives in the 2019 elections in hopes of a government that could finally break free from European Union rules and actually reduce the number of immigrants coming to the country. A record 1.1 million visas were issued as net immigration reached a record 500,000 last year — nearly doubled The peak seen under Tony Blair’s left-wing labor government.
Since David Cameron’s tenure as prime minister from 2010 to 2016, the Conservative government has pledged to reduce net immigration in its 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019 election manifestos, reducing the number of migrants entering the country. I was consistently paying lip service to the idea of reducing numbers. Yet the numbers continue to grow.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in his party leadership election last summer to replace Johnson as president that he would aim to cut immigration if he took office, but he refused to commit to a strict annual cap and since then has It has not made any significant moves to restrict immigration. It was installed in Downing Street during a globalist-backed coup against short-term Prime Minister Liz Truss.
Interior Secretary Suela Braverman has previously said the government must deliver on its long-standing promise to the public to bring net immigration down to “tens of thousands”, but her tenure in cabinet has thus far been illegal. It has been spent in unsuccessful attempts to settle the ship. We have to deal with the migration crisis in the English Channel more than we can tackle legal large-scale migration, even though it has a far greater impact on the country’s demographics.
Recent data from the 10-year census also reveals that the proportion of Aboriginal people in England and Wales is below 75%.
Despite promises to “take back control” of the border, the foreign-born population has grown from about 7.5 million a decade ago to about 10.4 million today. Her sixth in the entire UK population.
Farage: ‘Tories deserve to be wiped out’ over record net immigration to UK https://t.co/43ROZcYWyq
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 25, 2022
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