2 hours ago Keir Starmer press conference LIVE: Prime Minister brands record net migration figures a 'different order of failure' as he vows to drive down numbers arriving in UK

MAILONLINE BLOG: Keir Starmer is to address the nation in response to record net migration figures at a Downing Street press conference.

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2 hours ago UK politics live: Starmer says Tories used Brexit to run ‘open borders experiment’ in migration speech

Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that net migration has fallen by 20 per cent this year, after reaching a record high of 906,000 in 2023

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3 hours ago Keir Starmer press conference LIVE: Prime Minister to address nation in response to record migration figures

MAILONLINE BLOG: Keir Starmer is to address the nation in response to record net migration figures at a Downing Street press conference.

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3 hours ago UK politics live: Keir Starmer gives Downing Street speech on migration after figures fall sharply

Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that net migration has fallen by 20 per cent this year, after reaching a record high of 906,000 in 2023

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3 hours ago Trump wishes Happy Thanksgiving to ‘radical left lunatics’; Mexico president clarifies call on border, tariffs: Live

President-elect Trump claims the Mexico border is ‘effectively’ closed after his conversation with president Claudia Sheinbaum

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3 hours ago ‘I’m emotionally ruined’: MPs bitterly divided over assisted dying, with Starmer appalled by ministers’ comments

Unlikely alliances and concerns over vulnerable people’s rights have led to fierce debate and ethical uncertaintyUK politics live – latest updatesWhen Kim Leadbeater came top of the ballot of private members’ bills, she did not immediately decide to attempt a generational change in the way the British state handles life and death. But, she says, it was an opportunity that rarely comes for a backbench MP.The past few months campaigning for her bill to legalise assisted dying have exhausted her. It has been a licence for everyone she meets – in parliament, in the street, everywhere in her life – to tell harrowing stories. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago UK politics live: Double blow for Tories as former MP defects to Reform and Farage’s party boosts membership

‘Today I have joined the party of the brave,’ former Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns said after being unveiled at a press conference in London.

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6 hours ago UK politics live: Double blow for Tories as MP defects to Reform and Farage’s party boosts membership

‘Today I have joined the party of the brave,’ former Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns said after being unveiled at a press conference in London.

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6 hours ago Former Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns has joined Reform UK, says Nigel Farage – UK politics live

Reform UK party leader says Jenkyns will be party’s candidate in election for mayor in LincolnshireHere is a chart from the ONS report illustrating the latest figures.Here is the PA Media story on the figures.Net migration to the UK hit a higher than previously thought record of 906,000 in the year to June 2023, revised official estimates show.The measure for the difference between the number of people arriving and leaving the country then dropped by 20% in the latest period, the 12 months to June 2024, and now stands at 728,000. Continue reading...

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