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The Tory Party's Insane Review of Migration
Migration figures are high because there was quite a lot of pent up demand over the pandemic when migration figures for 2020 and 2021 were artificially low. What's happening is that people who wanted to work abroad or study in the UK, there's a pent up demand for that. Add to that the situation in Ukraine, which involved tens of thousands of people coming over, and the situation in Hong Kong,. where the government decided to offer sort of grandfather rights, visas to Hong Kongers who wanted to leave that region. And it all balloons quite significantly. So, I mean, the same view is that this is completely normal. The insane review, and we have to look at that because the
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