IMMIGRATION is continuing to rocket by more than half a million new arrivals every year, official figures revealed yesterday.An extra 590,000 immigrants came to live in Britain last year, the statistics showed.
Only unprecedented numbers of people leaving the country caused a slight slowing in the rate of the UK’s population growth.
Critics of Labour’s immigration policy last night seized on the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics as fresh evidence that ministers’ vow to curb immigration is failing. Overall, migration both in and out of Britain added 163,000 to the UK population in the 12 months up to the end of March.
There were 590,000 arrivals between April last year and March this year, compared with 574,000 the previous year. Meanwhile, 427,000 people left the country in the 12 months to last March compared with 341,000 in the previous year.
This year’s exodus was the highest since records began in 1991.
Many were eastern Europeans returning home because of rising unemployment here. The number of non-Britons leaving the country rose from 169,000 in 2007 to 255,000 last year. Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green said: “Yet another of Gordon Brown’s soundbites has proved to be false.
“This government has created British jobs for foreign workers as the astonishing increase in grants of settlement shows.”continues here
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