Net migration to the UK halved from 860,000 in the year ending December 2023 to 431,000 in the year ending December 2024, the Office for National Statistics has estimated.
This is the biggest calendar-year drop since the early stages of the pandemic, when net migration fell from 184,000 in the year ending December 2019 to 93,000 in the year ending December 2020.
So what is the cause for this decrease? ITV News spoke to Madeleine Sumption, the director of Migration Observatory about factors that have led to these figures, including changes to visas and travel restrictions.
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