UK Immigration: 'Take back control' is an easy slogan to create but fiendishly hard to implement

Net migration rose to 606,000 in the year to December 2022, official statistics show. The figure is the highest on record for a calendar year.

It comes despite a Tory 2019 manifesto commitment to "bring overall numbers down". The figure was 488,000 in 2021.

Sky News' political editor Beth Rigby has stressed how "Out of control might" be a better three-word slogan for the current state of affairs that puts huge pressure on the Conservative government that now owns this mess.

Read more here: https://news.sky.com/story/take-back-control-is-an-easy-slogan-to-create-but-fiendishly-hard-to-implement-and-sunak-knows-it-12889412

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