How ‘soft-touch’ Britain became the immigration capital of Europe: Stark stats show UK welcomed 1.27million foreign nationals in just a year – more than anywhere else on the continent (and that’s enough people to fill a city the size of Birmingham…)
More immigrants flock to Britain than any other European nation, according to official figures laying bare our ‘soft-touch’ system.
Around 1.27million foreign nationals moved to the UK in 2023 – enough people to fill a city the size of Birmingham.
Germany, now centre of Europe’s anti-immigration fightback, took 1.22m, followed by Spain (1.1m), Italy (378,000) and France (295,000).
The House of Commons Library presented the data in a report earlier this month in a wide-ranging report on migration, using figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the EU’s Eurostat equivalent.
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The UK’s high numbers over the past few years have raised concerns among experts who point out that the vast majority of arrivals have come via legal means.
Alp Mehmet, of Migration Watch UK, has bemoaned Britain’s ‘soft-touch’ nature, saying: ‘Over five million long-term migrants have arrived in the past five years; around twenty-five times the number who have crossed the Channel illegally in small boats.
‘They have come because we made it possible, because they will be better off, and because they know that once here they’re likely to to be allowed to stay.
‘Add to that the state support available, and the question becomes: why wouldn’t they come?’
When it comes to net migration, the difference between people coming to the UK and those leaving, the UK’s figures are also high.
The 2023 figures show it also had the largest annual net total (897,000), followed by Germany (793,000), Spain (616,000), Italy (334,000) and France (218,000).
The UK’s rise to become Europe’s leading destination for immigrants stems primarily from its overtaking of Germany, the long-time leader.
Germany’s annual net migration was around 100,000 in 2009, but it rose gradually and then sharply to a peak of 1.27m in 2015.
This was when the chancellor Angela Merkel, now infamously – threw open Germany’s doors to more than a million asylum seekers, declaring: ‘Wir schaffen das’, translated roughly to ‘we’ll manage’.
In a move that was widely seen as Britain choosing a different path from that of mass migration, the following year, it voted to leave the EU.
But by 2021, less than a decade on, the UK overtook Germany as Europe’s immigrant capital, seemingly against its populations wishes.
As well as soaring immigration rates to its shores, the UK took the crown from Germany because the once-open country has opted to dramatically tighten its border controls over the past few years.
But the primary reason was what is now dubbed ‘the Boris wave’, where Britain experienced a sharp increase in immigration from outside the EU after Brexit from 2021 to 2023.
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A jaw-dropping 1.2 million residency visas were issued in the 12 months to June 2022, higher than in any year since records began.
The soaring rates have come despite polling showing the British public is growing more unhappy with the changing nature of their country.
When asked the question whether immigration has been too high over the past 10 years, the rate of people saying it is too high has increased by around 20% in the past two years.
England and Wales’ population now has 11.4 million non-UK-born residents, according to a June 2023 ONS estimate.
This broke down to 3.4 million EU-born and 8.0 million non-EU born, which combined add up to the equivalent of around 19% of the entire population.
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