Ministers have perfected a patter when talking about immigration. “We’re sorry – we’ve made mistakes, but we’re now getting it under control with our new, tough, Australian-style Points Based System”, they say. Last week, in his first speech on immigration in two years, Gordon Brown trumpeted the merits of the Points Based System (PBS) for immigration and citizenship. He claimed that “together they constitute a fundamental reform of a decade’s old system – a reform founded on the British values of personal responsibility and civic duty.”
Migration and the geography of population change in England and Wales: ONS analysis
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
July 31, 2026
