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Some 13,574 migrants arrived in the UK between the start of 2024 and the general election on July 5, according to analysis of Home Office data by the PA news agency.
More than 150,000 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in the last seven years. Since current records began on January 1 2018, 150,243 people have made the journey, according ...
– How many people are making the crossing per boat? The average has been on an upwards trend since the start of 2021. In 2018 there were fewer than 10 people per boat while in 2019 and 2020 the ...
On 3 September, the bottom of a boat overcrowded with migrants ripped open, resulting in 12 deaths. [63] During the year to date, more than 21,000 people had crossed the channel. [64] At 00:00 on 15 September, rescue services were alerted to a rubber boat north of Boulogne-sur-mer that had got in a difficult situation. After hitting rocks it ...
The foreign-born population increased from about 5.3 million in 2004 to nearly 9.3 million in 2018. In the decade leading up to 2018, the number of non-EU migrants outnumbered EU migrants while the number of EU migrants increased more rapidly. EU citizens were noted to be less likely to become British citizens than non-EU migrants. [1]
In 2019, Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged to reduce net migration to the UK (the number of people immigrating minus the number emigrating) below 250,000 per year. [3] Net migration to the UK reached a record high of 764,000 in 2022, [4] with immigration at 1.26 million and emigration at 493,000. [5]
Free movement ended in January 2021 and Brexit immigration rules came into force. Since June 2021, at least 3.6 million immigrants have entered the UK. Net migration is at 2.3 million over that ...
In 2011, an estimated 589,000 migrants arrived to live in the UK for at least a year, most of the migrants were people from Asia (particularly the Indian subcontinent) and Africa, [76] while 338,000 people emigrated from the UK for a year or more. [76]