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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…

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Suella Braverman was mocked by the Opposition after the Home Secretary missed questions in the Commons on the newly released immigration figures.

Rishi Sunak said the numbers were “too high” and “I want to bring them down”.

Net migration to the UK reached a record high last year, opening the Conservative Party up to criticism that it has broken its 2019 manifesto pledge to “take back control” of borders and reduce numbers of migrants.

New figures show that net migration – the difference between the number of people moving to the UK and the number leaving – was 606,000 last year.

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NET migration hit record levels in 2022, hitting levels roughly the equivalent to the entire population of Glasgow ...

The Office for National Statistics announced UK inflation dropped to 8.7 per cent in the 12 months to April - but a cost of living expert remains cynical about the single figure