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Reform UK’s social gathering chief Richard Tice has been scrutinised for a declare he made on migration numbers.
In a social media submit final week, Mr Tice stated that Rishi Sunak had ‘welcomed extra migrants in simply two years… than arrived between 1066 and 2010’.
However his declare has since been ‘truth checked’ – and X/Twitter positioned a ‘neighborhood notice’ beneath the claims, permitting contributors so as to add context.
In 2022 and 2023, just below 2.5 million immigrants in complete got here to the UK, whereas between 1964 – when Workplace for Nationwide Statistics (ONS) information begins – and 2010 greater than 14.6 million folks emigrated to the UK.
Provisional information from the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics (ONS) launched on Might 23 confirmed that long-term immigration to the UK was 1.218 million for the yr ending December 2023 after being 1.257 million for a similar interval in 2022. Collectively these add as much as 2.475 million folks.
In a social media submit final week, Richard Tice stated that Rishi Sunak had ‘welcomed extra migrants in simply two years… than arrived between 1066 and 2010’
In 2022 and 2023, just below 2.5 million immigrants in complete got here to the UK, whereas between 1964 – when Workplace for Nationwide Statistics ( ONS ) information begins – and 2010 greater than 14.6 million folks emigrated to the UK (file picture)
ONS immigration information from 1964 to 2010 exhibits there have been 14.646 million immigrants throughout the 46 years.
That alone is a determine nearly six occasions greater than complete immigration over the previous two years, although it’s lacking information from practically 900 years of Mr Tice’s chosen vary of 1066 and 2010.
If measuring web migration – that’s the quantity of people that moved to the UK minus the quantity who left the nation – the figures are barely completely different.
Web migration was 685,000 in 2023 and 764,000 in 2022, for a mixed tally of 1.449 million.
In the meantime, ONS figures recommend that web migration between 1964 and 2010 was 2.287 million.
Since ONS data don’t return so far as 1066, it’s unclear what complete web migration could be if information from the opposite 898 years could possibly be included.
Reform UK’s press workplace didn’t reply when requested to offer a supply for the declare in Mr Tice’s submit on X, previously Twitter.
