Is immigration currently high?
Yes. Last year about 1.2 million people moved to the UK, almost certainly the highest number in history. “Net migration” (the term widely used to mean net inward migration, that is immigration minus emigration) was 764,000 in 2022 and 685,000 in 2023 – about triple the level at the last general election in 2019. That’s a far cry from the “tens of thousands” promised by the Conservatives at both the 2015 and 2017 election. Overall, since 2010, when the Conservatives came to power (initially in coalition with the Lib Dems), ten million people have moved to the UK, and 6.3 million have left,
