Boris Johnson blames Remainer civil servants for 2.6 million Tory net migration boom

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Boris Johnson blames Remainer civil servants for 2.6 million Tory net migration boom.

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Boris Johnson has blamed "Remainer" civil servants for a 2.6 million surge in net migration under the Tories.The former Prime Minister, who is criticised for overseeing the so-called "Boriswave" influx, accused Whitehall mandarins of believing Brexit would turn the UK into a "leper colony" unless net migration surged."Nice, well-meaning, liberal people were saying Brexit is going to turn us into a leper colony and people are going to flee the UK," Mr Johnson told Sky News."I actually think that sort of rhetoric was taken seriously by Whitehall.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say "You have a lot of good, nice, Remain civil servants, and I think that they thought that we did need to get people in to do social care and to do things like that."Net migration peaked at 944,000 in the year ending March 2023, with successive Tory Prime Ministers issuing 3.8 million long-term visas.

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The Tory Party's relaxed approach to legal migration resulted in a net migration influx of around 2.6 million...

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