Britain’s net migration figures being ‘spun’ to hide ‘real problem’ of mass immigration, says David Shipley
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Britain's net migration figures being ‘spun' to hide ‘real problem' of mass immigration, says David Shipley.
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David Shipley has suggested the Government's latest net migration figures are being "spun" to mask the "real problem" of mass immigration.Speaking to GB News, the journalist reacted to the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's announcement that UK net migration has now been halved.Fresh data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed the figure at 171,000 in the 12 months leading up to December 2025, a 48 per cent drop year-on-year to the lowest level since early 2021."It's obviously good if we are getting migration down, but these statistics are pretty misleading and are definitely being spun," Mr Shipley told GB News.
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"We've had a quarter of a million British nationals left forever, and 118,000 EU nationals left forever", he said."We brought in something like 627,000 from non-EU...
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