Europe’s mobile population

Net migration to the UK reached a near-record 333,000 last year, with EU citizens accounting for 184,000 of the total

How does the public view the influx? Unfavourably: mass immigration is very unpopular in Britain. A study of survey data by the University of Oxford’s Migration Observatory suggests 77% of UK citizens, first and second-generation immigrants included, favour reducing immigration. More than half would like to see it reduced “a lot”. It is consistently ranked as one of the “most important issues” facing the nation; and UK citizens seem as worried about immigration from within the EU as that from outside it. Why are they worried? In recent years, inflows to the UK have reached unprecedented levels. In 1991, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) put the population at 57.4 million. In 2014, it was 65 million. Some 53% of that growth is due directly to migration. The rest is down to births…

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