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Strong month for bars and pubs, analysts say

UK economy has bounced back from March’s contraction, but experts fear rising interest rates will cause recession

A new Office for National Statistics report revealed a huge rise in the number of cases

Al Jazeera interviews social scientist Nando Sigona on migration trends.

The news from the Office of National Statistics that net migration reached a record high of 606,000 in 2022 is likely to have embarrassed the government, particularly the home secretary, Suella Braverman. For years, successive prime ministers have promised reductions in net migration, but without much success in delivering them.

More than half of people in England and Wales paid to hold elected office are aged 60 or over.

The party said its analysis of official figures shows the economic cost of the Conservatives’ ‘failure’ to support people with ill health.

Regardless of how the figures are cut, the level of net migration is far higher than the 'tens of thousands' promised by David Cameron

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has described the UK’s new immigration figures, showing over 600,000 net migration for the year ending December 2022, as “too high”. While revised estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show this rate is actually the same as it was for the year ending June…