Sunak is Under Pressure to Act as UK’s Net Migration Figures for 2022 Hit a Record High

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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced heavy pressure from his own Conservatives to take swift action to bring down migration, as new data published Thursday showed net migration numbers were higher than previously thought. The Office for National Statistics revised its estimates for net migration to the UK meaning the number of people arriving minus those leaving in the year to December 2022 to 745,000. That is a new record and significantly higher than the previous estimate of 606,000 for the same period. The more hard-line wing of the Tories called for Sunak to act now as a general election...