Net migration drop 'step in the right direction' - Starmer

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The decrease in net migration is being driven by fewer people from outside the EU arriving in the UK for work or to study, along with an increase in people moving out of the country, the ONS said.
51% : "With numbers returning to pre-Brexit levels, we need an immigration politics for 2025 and beyond.
50% : There have been notable changes in migration levels for non-EU-plus nationals, however, as the number arriving in the UK has fallen 37% year on year, while the number leaving has risen by 20%.
36% : Mary Gregory, executive director for population and Census at the ONS said: "Net migration is at the lowest level seen since 2021, when pandemic lockdown restrictions were lifted and the new immigration system was introduced following the UK's EU exit. "Non-EU-plus emigration is driven by Indian and Chinese nationals, who originally arrived on study visas, while nine out of 10 British people emigrating are of working age." The lower estimates follow the introduction in early 2024 by the previous Conservative government of restrictions on people eligible to travel to the UK on work or study visas.

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