Brexit immigration pledge in tatters

In the year to June 2023, a near-record number of migrants moved to the UK, exposing the realities facing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he tries in vain to honour his party’s Brexit pledge to lower it

NET MIGRATION TO UNITED KINGDOM (’000s)
1000
800
600
400
276
200
0
-200

 Dec Jun Dec Jun Dec Jun Dec Jun Dec Jun
 2018 2019      2020    2021   2022 2023

276 35 745 672

Jan 31, 2020: UK exits EU (Brexit)

EU nationals
Outside EU
British citizens
Total


Rishi Sunak: One of succession of UK prime ministers unable to reduce immigration
                              

Sources: Bloomberg, Office for National Statistics
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