Reform UK's enactment person Richard Tice has been scrutinised for a assertion helium made connected migration numbers.
In a societal media station past week, Mr Tice said that Rishi Sunak had 'welcomed much migrants successful conscionable 2 years... than arrived betwixt 1066 and 2010'.
But his assertion has since been 'fact checked' - and X/Twitter placed a 'community note' nether the claims, allowing contributors to adhd context.
In 2022 and 2023, conscionable nether 2.5 cardinal immigrants successful full came to the UK, portion betwixt 1964 - erstwhile Office for National Statistics (ONS) information begins - and 2010 much than 14.6 cardinal radical emigrated to the UK.
Provisional information from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released connected May 23 showed that semipermanent migration to the UK was 1.218 cardinal for the twelvemonth ending December 2023 aft being 1.257 cardinal for the aforesaid play successful 2022. Together these adhd up to 2.475 cardinal people.
In a societal media station past week, Richard Tice said that Rishi Sunak had 'welcomed much migrants successful conscionable 2 years... than arrived betwixt 1066 and 2010'
In 2022 and 2023, conscionable nether 2.5 cardinal immigrants successful full came to the UK, portion betwixt 1964 - erstwhile Office for National Statistics ( ONS ) information begins - and 2010 much than 14.6 cardinal radical emigrated to the UK (file image)
ONS migration information from 1964 to 2010 shows determination were 14.646 cardinal immigrants crossed the 46 years.
That unsocial is simply a fig astir six times higher than full migration implicit the past 2 years, adjacent though it is missing information from astir 900 years of Mr Tice's selected scope of 1066 and 2010.
If measuring nett migration - that is the fig of radical who moved to the UK minus the fig who near the state - the figures are somewhat different.
Net migration was 685,000 successful 2023 and 764,000 successful 2022, for a combined tally of 1.449 million.
Meanwhile, ONS figures suggest that nett migration betwixt 1964 and 2010 was 2.287 million.
Since ONS records bash not spell backmost arsenic acold arsenic 1066, it is unclear what full nett migration would beryllium if information from the different 898 years could beryllium included.
Reform UK's property bureau did not respond erstwhile asked to supply a root for the assertion successful Mr Tice's station connected X, formerly Twitter.
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