Immigration to the UK from outside the EU hit a record high in the run-up to Brexit. Figures out yesterday showed in 2019 those arriving soared to 404,000, despite PM Boris Johnson ’s vow to curb net migration.
In 1975 when records began, it was 93,000. Non-EU net migration, the difference between those entering and leaving, also hit a peak of 282,000.
However EU net migration dropped to 49,000, from 75,000 a year earlier and after hitting more than 200,000 in 2015. Overall net migration stood at 270,000, up from 232,000 for the same period in 2018.
Jay Lindop, director of the Centre for International Migration at the Office for National Statistics, said in the year to December “non-EU migration was the highest seen, driven by a rise in
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