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Since leaving the European Union and emerging from the Covid-19 Pandemic, the topic of workforce immigration has rarely been far from the headlines. Whether it is increasing the number of agricultural workers, nurses or hospitality staff there has been no end to the calls for ever more immigration. If anything, it

In recent years, the amount of modern slavery claims being made by asylum seekers has risen substantially. In 2022, claims reached a high of 17,000 of which just a quarter were for sole UK nationals. Earlier this year, we published exclusive data linking the significant increase in modern slavery claims to the Channel crisis.

The number of visa grants for people to come and live in the UK has more than doubled from over half a million in 2019 to 1.3 million in 2022 (see the full Home Office bulletinand our press comment). And that doesn’t include 50,000 people who were caught attempting to enter the UK

The figures show that 54,090 people attempted to enter illegally in 2022, and 45,755 of these by small boat. The boat figures are an increase of 1.6 times on the number of people that arrived via the route in 2021. The first graph below is a Home Office depiction of

Summary:  In the last 20 years the population of England and Wales has increased by around eight million entirely as a result of immigration. This has meant huge population shifts and churn in different areas of the UK but particularly in London, the South East and East of England, and the

Net migration for the year to June 2022 is estimated by the ONS to be 504,000 This of course is an all-time record level of net migration.  The previous record was a third of a million the year to March 2016.  To be clear, net immigration has *risen* by that amount