The UK's Immigration Conundrum: Balancing Numbers and Consequences.
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Net migration added 606,000 to the UK's population last year, with an estimated 1.2 million people arriving and just over half a million leaving. The east of England is highly dependent on immigration, and Great Yarmouth overwhelmingly backed Brexit. After Brexit, all of the levers of control are in the hands of Westminster leaders, but shoving them this way or that comes with trade-offs: societal, economic, political. Rishi Sunak has re-written the Tory promise of 2019 to reduce net migration, which then stood at around a quarter of a million a year.
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