Total failure of Brexit in the UK, never so many immigrants

This was the main theme of the campaign to leave the electorate, which resented the votes the most, and which ultimately led to the victory of the divorce from the European Union: We will reduce the number of immigrants arriving with Brexit. United Kingdom. In the propaganda before the 2016 referendum, this phrase was repeated like a mantra. But since then, things have gotten worse for the country from this perspective.

Figures released today by the British Office for National Statistics greatly embarrass Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government: total emigration for 2022 was 606,000, a 20% increase from the previous high of 504,000 last year. In total, 1.2 million people moved to the UK in 2022 and 557,000 emigrated. That means immigration added to the country’s population the equivalent of a city roughly the size of Glasgow last year.

The numbers are more than double the level recorded in 2019, when the Conservative Party led by Boris Johnson at the time promised to reduce overall immigration in its election manifesto. The data is particularly embarrassing not only for Prime Minister Sunak, but also for Suella Braverman, Minister of the Interior, the harshness of Brexit and the fight against immigrants. The average net migration before Brexit was between 200,000 and 250,000 per year. Braverman said last year that he wanted to reduce the total immigration to “tens of thousands”, and Sunak has adhered to a commitment made earlier by Boris Johnson to bring the total number below 245,000 in 2019. In reality, things are proceeding in a completely different way, despite the very strong compression the government wants.

And the string of failed Conservative promises on the subject began more than a decade ago. As early as 2010, during the election campaign that led to his election as prime minister, David Cameron promised to reduce net immigration to the “tens of thousands.” At that time, the figure was about 250,000 people each year. Reiterating the promise he made while in office as prime minister the following year, Cameron stated that the target of reducing net immigration to below 100 thousand units will be achieved with the 2015 elections, and net immigration reached a record level of 379 thousand people. During that year’s election campaign, the Conservatives reaffirmed their commitment, saying they “met our net annual migration target by tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands.”

Back then, Johnson, Nigel Farage, and supporters of the Vote to Leave campaign pledged to regain control of borders and immigration, and Theresa did the same in May 2017. The last word that was not kept is precisely the last election campaign in 2019 that led to Johnson’s victory, when conservatives promised to reduce the overall net immigration rate from the current 245,000 units. The actual data today is almost three times higher.

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