![]() ![]() ![]() Next Thursday, the Office for National Statistics will report net migration - the difference in numbers between those who leave and arrive in the country - in the year to December 2022. Suella Braverman (pictured) has been a member of the Cabinet since February 2020 - a couple of months after the Tories were elected on the promise of bringing down net migration They have made things far, far worse than they were before. But they haven't merely failed in this endeavour. What has happened? Have the Tories, armed with their new powers, fulfilled their pledge to bring down net legal immigration? No, they have not. The 2019 Conservative manifesto promised that 'overall numbers will come down'.Īt last, the Government - rather than Brussels - was in a position to determine how many legal migrants should be allowed to come here every year, though admittedly, the much smaller number of illegal migrants trying to cross the Channel in small boats can't be easily regulated. But the slogan 'take back control' resonated at a time when the number of immigrants, particularly from Eastern Europe, appeared to be rising year by year.Īfter the result, the Tory Party seemed finally to have got the message that something concrete had to be done. Almost everyone who has examined the 2016 EU referendum has concluded that a desire to rein in mass immigration played a major part in the vote to leave. ![]()
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