by Connor Tomlinson, Restoration
Britain’s porous borders and permissive asylum policies are being exploited by radical Islamists interested in conquest, not coexistence
New ONS figures show that annual net migration halved from 806,000 to 431,000 in 2024. The provisional estimate for total migration has fallen from 1.326 million in 2023 to 948,000 in 2024. Emigration is up by 11%, to 517,000 — largely driven by European (218,000) and British (77,000) nationals. They were replaced by 544,000 (81%) new non-EU arrivals — continuing the trend of unprecedented, culturally distant demographic change since immigration laws were liberalized after Brexit. Work visas for non-EU applicants fell by 49% (-108,000); work dependents by 35% (-81,000); and study dependents by 86% (-105,000).
Source: Office for National Statistics (22 May 2025)
While the Labour government and its unimpressive cheerleaders such as Mike Tapp are taking a victory lap, nothing they did since the July general election led to this. Loathe though I am to attribute competence to the last Conservative government, the fall in student and care worker dependent visas are due to their efforts to mitigate a disaster of their own making. Labour’s proposed changes to the immigration system have not yet gone into effect. Also, net migration running at >400,000 is nothing to brag about. It’s like defecating in the bathtub, then cheering when you switch to just urinating instead. The tub is still filling up, and you’re still sitting in it.