Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to tackle a “dangerous brain drain” that is harming the UK economy, just days before next week’s make-or-break Budget, after official figures showed that the number of Britons leaving the UK is far higher than was previously thought.
A total of 257,000 British nationals are now thought to have left the country last year – 180,000 more than the initial estimate of just 77,000, according to the statistics, which also revealed that net migration had reached a new record high.
