Brexiteers and Remainers BOTH flawed about post-Brexit migration – Andrew Neil
Brexiteers and Remainers “could not have been more wrong” in regards to the affect of Brexit on migration, Andrew Neil has stated.
The broadcaster, who’s extensively thought to be Britain’s hardest political interrogator, highlighted official figures exhibiting internet migration to the UK was a file excessive at 504,000 within the yr to June 2022.
Mr Neil additionally referred to reviews that upcoming statistics will present an additional rise.
He stated: “Net migration to UK in year to June 2022 was 500,000 – a record high. For the year to last December it’s forecast to be between 700,000 and 1m (official stats May 25).
“Leavers and Remainers couldn’t have been extra flawed in regards to the affect of Brexit on migration.”
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Migration was a defining issue in the 2016 referendum campaign, with Brexiteers promising to end free movement with the EU.
Most voters believed the UK’s departure from the bloc would result in a fall in immigration.
But figures from the Office for National Statistics due to be published on May 25 are expected to show net migration of up to one million.
This would surpass the previous peak and heap pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over the Government’s 2019 pledge to reduce the numbers.
Cabinet minister Grant Shapps yesterday said arrivals from Ukraine and Hong Kong had added as many as 300,000 to UK migration figures.
He told the Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme on Sky News: “This nation has had an enormous coronary heart, we have opened the nation for Ukrainian refugees, for British nationals from Hong Kong.
“Take those two groups alone and it’s well over 300,000 of these numbers. And then of course we’ve had people from Syria and elsewhere. So actually, I’m rather proud of our record.”
It comes as Suella Braverman will right now argue for decrease migration on the National Conservatism Conference.
The Home Secretary, a darling of the precise of the Conservative Party, will say: “I voted and campaigned for Brexit as a result of I wished Britain to regulate migration. So that all of us have a say on what works for our nation.
“High-skilled staff assist financial development. Fact. But we have to get total immigration numbers down. And we mustn’t neglect learn how to do issues for ourselves.
“There is not any good cause why we won’t prepare up sufficient HGV drivers, butchers or fruit pickers. Brexit permits us to construct a high-skilled, excessive wage financial system that’s much less depending on low-skilled overseas labour.
“That was our 2019 manifesto pledge and what we should ship.”