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Immigration claims in the 2024 general election: fact checked
Claims about legal and illegal migration have been prominent in the election campaign. Here’s a roundup of our verdicts on some of the key claims from the major political parties.
ONS figures don’t show 14 million people will arrive in the UK ‘in the next 12 years’
The ONS actually projects that 10.4 million will immigrate to the UK between this year and mid-2036.
It’s not true that more migrants arrived in the UK in two years than between 1066 and 2010
A graphic shared by Reform UK leader Richard Tice claims Rishi Sunak “welcomed more migrants in just two years” than in the 944 years prior to 2010.