UK immigration surge
The UK Daily Telegraph reports that more than 1 million foreign nationals were allowed to live in the UK in a single year, an increase of 35 per cent, breaking one of the key Brexit pledges to regain control of the borders.
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Following the controversial Brexit vote, the UK has seen more than 1 million foreign nationals to live in the country in a year.
Of course, visas granted to EU citizens increased as expected.
But the real shock to Brexiteers has been the huge surge in non-EU visa grants, study grants, illegal arrivals, and other non-EU categories.
Migration Watch charts the latest non-EU ONS figures below:
Source: Migration Watch
There is likely to a battle for the best and brightest international students between countries like Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia...and the UK is off and running with 411,800 study grants to non-EU nationals, hugely outstripping the record 285,500 seen in 2019.
The outdated National Health Service is already buckling after years of under-funding and failed attempts to modernise, so this will add to the pressures.
Meanwhile, inflation in the UK is heading towards 10 per cent as energy and power prices surge.
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I looked at how Australia's population growth is likely to rebound here.
The competition for international students is likely to be a key plank of migration policy over the next few years.
