Thursday, September 03
Long-term net migration to Britain fell to 204,000 in the year to June, around two-thirds lower than a year earlier, official data showed on Thursday, extending a downward trend driven by tougher government policies.Immigration - both legal and illegal - has dominated political discourse in Britain for over a decade, with successive governments seeking to curb arrivals through stricter visa rules and higher salary thresholds.The Labour government is tightening policies further to counter Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party, which campaigns on an anti-migration platform and holds a double-digit lead in opinion polls. Revised data from the Office for National Statistics last week showed that net immigration peaked earlier and at a higher level than previously thought - 944,000 in the 12
