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The 300,000 drop in net migration since the election is important and welcome after the figures quadrupled to nearly a million in the last parliament."
Interior minister Yvette Cooper said Numbers are still too high and Starmer STILL keeps voting against every plan to bring them down further."
But opposition Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch argued on X Long-term net migration is down by almost 50 percent, ... we are seeing reductions in people arriving on work- and study-related visas."
the ONS said in its latest report adding This is going to be touted as a massive victory for Labour. Is that accurate?"
Speaking to White, Turner said That would be wrong if they did that because these are changes effectively brought in under the previous Conservative government that have seen this reduction in net migration,
Net migration, we're told, is almost down by 50 per cent."
Looking into the latest figures, he explained So actually, more than 130,000 is that rounding up area if we want to describe it as that. That probably tells you that that 431,000 isn't quite going to be that. It's probably going to be over 500,000 at least, by the time they've done the rounding up."
The previous government gave Starmer a present wrapped in a bow,
said Sunder Katwala, the director of British Future, a research institute that specializes in migration and integration We are seeing reductions in people arriving on work- and study-related visas, and an increase in emigration over the 12 months to December 2024, especially people leaving who originally came on study visas once pandemic travel restrictions to the UK were eased,
the ONS said in a statement Our provisional estimates show net migration has almost halved compared with the previous year, driven by falling numbers of people coming to work and study, particularly student dependants
Director of population statistics at the ONS Mary Gregory said That gives him an opportunity to take a more pragmatic approach, managing the pressures and keeping the gains of immigration – rather than competing in a political auction over which party can pretend to eliminate it.”
So Keir Starmer is in the unusual position for a PM of having exceeded expectations on immigration – though largely by not cancelling measures introduced by his predecessors,
The point being is at some point almost every prisoner will be released. We have to look across the system at doing everything we can do to minimise the risk of reoffending. You cannot remove that risk altogether.”
Asked if this would be used instead of keeping sex offenders in prison, he said One of our recommendations is that we think that we should continue to explore this, this is drugs that reduces sexual desire,
I think there is a point from the perspective of the taxpayer that can be missed here,
I’m not going to claim it’s the answer for everything. This is about reducing the risk of reoffending in future. There are some sex offenders who want to reduce their desires. And if we can explore this, I think that is something that’s worthwhile,
