Web migration – the distinction between the variety of folks arriving and people leaving – was 606,000 for the yr, in accordance with the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics. A complete of 1.2 million folks moved to the U.Ok. in 2022, whereas 557,000 left.

A complete of 1.2 million folks moved to the UK in 2022, whereas 557,000 left. (File Representational Photograph)Hearken to this text
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The variety of folks shifting to Britain reached a report excessive of greater than 600,000 in 2022, authorities figures confirmed Thursday.

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Web migration – the distinction between the variety of folks arriving and people leaving – was 606,000 for the yr, in accordance with the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics. A complete of 1.2 million folks moved to the UK in 2022, whereas 557,000 left.

The online determine is up from just below 500,000 in 2021.

The statistics workplace mentioned the report degree was resulting from a “collection of unprecedented world occasions all through 2022 and the lifting of restrictions following the coronavirus pandemic.” In addition to folks coming to Britain to work, the determine contains tens of hundreds of worldwide college students and nearly 200,000 individuals who have arrived beneath particular packages for folks fleeing warfare in Ukraine and China’s clampdown in Hong Kong.

The excessive determine will renew debate about Britain’s departure from the European Union, which was motivated partly by the arrival of a whole lot of hundreds of individuals from throughout Europe within the years earlier than the 2016 Brexit referendum.

Supporters of Brexit mentioned leaving the EU — which provides residents of any member nation the best to stay and work in all of the others — would enable the UK to regulate its borders. Many who voted for Brexit thought immigration would fall, however the reverse has been true.

Whereas the variety of folks shifting to Britain from EU nations fell to 151,000 in 2022, the quantity from outdoors the bloc was 925,000.

First revealed on: 25-05-2023 at 16:39 IST