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Net migration nearly halved.

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So why has the argument not gone

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away?

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Start with the difference between arriving and

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staying.

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In twenty twenty-five, eight hundred and thirteen

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thousand people arrived, and six hundred and

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forty-two thousand left.

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That leaves net migration of one hundred

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and seventy-one thousand, down from a revised

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three hundred and thirty-one thousand a year

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earlier.

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It is not the number of all

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arrivals.

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The longer view matters.

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Here are the older survey estimates and

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the newer administrative estimates.

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We keep them separate because the counting

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changed.

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A lower annual flow does not rewind

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the number already living here, or instantly

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create homes, appointments and school places.

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Public concern is real.

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In August twenty twenty-six, sixty-one percent of

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adults in Great Britain named immigration as

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an important issue.

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That answer does not tell us whether

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someone opposes every migrant.

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Research finds views change when people are

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asked about different routes and occupations.

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Now meet a person behind a category.

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Doctor Inna Soldatenko fled Ukraine in twenty

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twenty-two.

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In Britain, she first worked in an

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NHS administrative role.

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Her route back to medicine required English,

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exams and support from colleagues.

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She became a specialist rheumatology doctor again.

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Here is the connection: newcomers can add

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demand for housing and services.

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They can also be the people staffing

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those services.

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The local balance cannot be read from

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one national total.

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Judge policy by lawful, timely decisions, workforce

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planning, recognition of skills and enough local

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capacity.

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Those are delivery questions, not slogans.

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Explore the figures, the different routes and

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the local picture at www dot uk-statpack

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dot co dot uk.