Keir Starmer<\/a> has lost control of our borders.<\/p>\n“Immigration at this level is a disgrace and must end.<\/p>\n
“It is stressing housing and public services, is breaking social cohesion and is actually bad for the economy.<\/p>\n
“The first eight months of this year were the worst in history for illegal immigrants crossing the channel.<\/p>\n
“And Starmer continues to allow legal migration at unacceptably high levels having cancelled our plans to raise the family visa threshold to \u00a338,000.<\/p>\n
“We urgently need a hard annual cap on legal migration at very low levels, and we must deport every illegal immigrant immediately upon arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ONS has previously predicted the population will surge to 72.5 million \u2013 up from 67.6 million \u2013 by 2032, heaping more pressure on the NHS, housing, roads and schools.<\/p>\n
Almost ten million people are expected to move to the UK between 2022 and 2032, with five million anticipated to leave over the same period.<\/p>\n
Statisticians at the ONS predicted net migration will settle at 340,000 per year from 2028.<\/p>\n
But this could be higher, with current levels soaring at 728,000.<\/p>\n
This is down from a record high of 906,000 in June 2023.<\/p>\n
Migration will account for \u201cthe entirety of the population growth\u201d as the difference between births and deaths is \u201cprojected to be around zero\u201d.<\/p>\n
England’s population is projected to grow more quickly than other UK nations in the decade to mid-2032, increasing by 7.8%, compared with 5.9% for Wales, 4.4% for Scotland and 2.1% for Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
The ONS also provides a projection further into the future, covering the 25 years between mid-2022 and mid-2047, for which the total projected growth of the UK population is 8.9 million, a jump of 13.2%.<\/p>\n
This is lower than the previous 25 years from 1997 to 2022, when the population is estimated to have risen by 9.3 million, or 15.9%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Migration fuelled another jaw-dropping increase in Britain’s population, as new figures show the the number of people in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,2795,420,50,73368,56,73367,54,55],"class_list":["post-161395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-immigration","tag-keir-starmer","tag-news","tag-ons-data","tag-uk","tag-uk-population-growth","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}