Keir Starmer press conference LIVE: Prime Minister to address nation in response to record migration figures

We’re anticipating the Prime Minister any second now.

His press convention was anticipated to happen at 3pm however has been delayed.

Official figures on internet migration to the UK have been launched earlier at present.

Here is what you have to know:

• The UK’s internet immigration file has been smashed once more with 906,000 now thought to have been added to the inhabitants in a single 12 months
• The quantity launched by the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics is 166,000 above the preliminary estimate of 740,000
• The price of the UK’s asylum system has risen to £5 billion, the very best degree of spending on file and up by greater than a 3rd in a 12 months, in keeping with separate Residence Workplace information
• Some 25,244 migrants have arrived on Channel boats within the 12 months to September, barely forward of the figures for 2023
• Some 66 per cent of small boats arrivals who acquired an preliminary determination within the 12 months ending September have been granted asylum. That was down from 86 per cent within the earlier 12 months
• The variety of asylum seekers being housed quickly in UK inns was 35,651 on the finish of September – up from 29,585 on the finish of June regardless of the Labour authorities pledging to cease utilizing the services

Nigel Farage known as the migration statistics launched this morning “horrendous”.

The Reform UK chief held a press convention reacting to the brand new figures.

Horrendous if you wish to get a GP appointment, horrendous if you wish to journey round Britain’s motorways, horrendous if you’d like your youngsters or grandkids to ever get a foot onto the housing ladder.

Horrendous when it comes to producing very disjointed societies and communities.

And also you may need observed, the faster the inhabitants rises, the poorer the common household in Britain turns into.

The dimensions of the inflows – with the height roughly equal to including two cities the identical dimension as Leicester in a 12 months – instantly sparked a recent political row.

Numbers from outdoors the EU have exploded since 2021, after the Brexit deal took impact.

The 5 greatest sources of immigration have been India, Nigeria, Pakistan, China and Zimbabwe.

Within the 12 months to June 2023, 268,000 arrivals got here from India alone.

Kemi Badenoch used a significant speech final evening to insist the Tories wouldn’t permit Britain to be handled like a ‘lodge’ for migrants.

However Labour claimed it’s ‘clearing up the mess’ left by the previous authorities.

The UK’s internet immigration file has been smashed once more with 906,000 now thought to have been added to the inhabitants in a single 12 months.

Big revisions to official information present the extraordinary mark was hit within the 12 months to June 2023 – and the figures stay at traditionally unprecedented ranges.

Official information overlaying the 12 months to June this 12 months present long-term immigration was 728,000 greater than these leaving the nation. In itself that was virtually as a lot because the earlier file.

However the bar has been dramatically shifted upwards by the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics, with internet migration for the 12 months to June 2023 now thought to have been 166,000 above the preliminary estimate of 740,000.

Keir Starmer has known as a press convention at Downing Road after new figures revealed internet migration to the UK hit a file 906,000 in 2023.

Workplace for Nationwide Statistics (ONS) figures indicated the measure for the distinction between the variety of folks arriving and leaving the nation reached the upper than beforehand thought peak within the 12 months to June final 12 months, after being revised up 166,000 from the preliminary estimate of 740,000.

The estimates, overlaying the earlier Conservative authorities’s administration previous to the final election, have since dropped by 20% and stood at 728,000 within the newest interval for the 12 months to June 2024.

In the meantime, the price of the UK’s asylum system has risen to £5 billion, the very best degree of spending on file and up by greater than a 3rd in a 12 months, in keeping with separate Residence Workplace information printed on the identical time.