The Office for National Statistics immigration figures for 2022 are expected to show a record number of people arriving
Stephen Kinnock, Labour’s immigration spokesperson, told LBC this morning that the figures would today would show the government had lost control of migration. He said:
[The figures] will say that they’ve lost control of the issue. They have failed to have a strategy in place for our local labour market, and as a result of that, employers are being forced to reach for overseas immigration.
We need a much more balanced approach, ensuring that we have the immigration we need of course, but that there’s much more opportunity for skills, productivity training, workforce planning to get our economy firing on all cylinders again.
You can’t grow your population at 700,000 a year – where on earth are you going to house these people? We build about 180,000 new homes a year.
Of course more than a million have come because this is a net figure, if it does turn out to be 700,000.
