“Ed Milliband’s speech is welcome recognition that mass immigration permitted under Labour has created serious problems for us all. If he is to level with the British people, as he has promised, he must now come forward with real policies that will achieve a major reduction in immigration which is now 80% from outside the EU.”
Note to Editors: In 2009 net non EU immigration amounted to 80% of net foreign immigration.
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
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