Commenting, Mr Alp Mehmet, Vice Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said:
These disappointing figures underline the need to take a strong position on immigration in the Brexit negotiations.
Even if net migration was brought down to 265,000 a year the UK population would still be growing at half a million a year, every year for the next ten years. That is the equivalent to another five Birminghams. This is unacceptable to most of the British public.
See the ONS figures.
An analysis of the Office for National Statistics’ estimates of population change, year-ending June 2025. The Office for National Statistics estimates that the population of
A decade after the Brexit referendum, the promise to “take back control” of immigration has not been delivered, according to a major new report from the independent think tank Migration Watch UK.
In November 2025, Migration Watch UK commissioned JL Partners to conduct a nationally representative poll of 1,520 UK adults on public attitudes toward net migration
