'Echoes of Enoch'

The latest figures come less than a fortnight after Sir Keir Starmer said high net migration had caused "incalculable" damage to British society, as he set out a series of measures aimed at reducing further the number of people moving long term to the UK.

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The Prime Minister, who said the country risks becoming an "island of strangers" without better integration,

People coming for study purposes declined by 17 per cent in the same period.

But there were larger falls in dependants coming to the UK, with study dependants down by 86 per cent (105,000 people) and work dependants dropping by 35 per cent (81,000 people).