As Keir Starmer says that leftwing parties, including Labour, have previously ‘shied away’ from concerns around illegal immigration, the Guardian’s policy editor, Kiran Stacey, looks at the real figures on immigration in Britain – and how numbers are actually coming down.
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He also explores why small boat arrivals, which constitute only a fraction of immigration in the UK, have become an ever-present subject in the public discourse
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