La frustrada promesa Brexit sobre inmigración infographic
El gráfico muestra la escalada de la inmigración al RU en años recientes.
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Los conservadores han manenido la promesa de reducir la inmigración al RU

By Ninian Carter

November 24, 2023 - IEn el año hasta junio de 2023, un número casi récord de migrantes llegó al RU, exponiendo las realidades que enfrenta el primer ministro Rishi Sunak mientrastrata en vano de honrar la promesa Brexit de su partido de reducir la inmigración.

In the year to June 2023, an estimated 672,000 more people moved to the UK than departed, according to the Office for National Statistics – a tough read for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he struggles to lower net immigration.

Sunak is the latest in a succession of UK prime ministers to fail to keep their Tory party promise to lower immigration – a key pledge of their Brexit campaign manifesto to leave the European Union.

Adding salt to the wound are amended figures for the year ending December 2022, which revises up the net number of migrants to arrive in the UK to 745,000 – a new record.

But with a stagnating economy and high inflation, driven in part by a shortfall in workers which is driving up wages, UK employers are increasingly recruiting staff from abroad in areas where Britain does not have enough home-grown skills.

Since the UK left the EU on Jan 31, 2020, migration from Europe has fallen, however, there has been an increase in migration from non-EU countries, ironically mostly through government-sanctioned schemes.

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PUBLISHED: 24/11/2023; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Getty Images
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