The widespread failure to tell the truth about immigration is profoundly dangerous |
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter.
You may have missed it, as the news has been very poorly reported in the British media, but the gulf between the reality of immigration versus the public perception of immigration is now as wide as the Atlantic Ocean.
The fact that most media outlets and most politicians have failed to acknowledge this truth is at the very heart of the problem.
Politicians and the media are not reflecting the truth about immigration, or keeping the public accurately informed about this most divisive political issue.
The facts are these: UK net migration has fallen to one of its lowest levels since 2012. Don’t believe me. Believe the Home Office and the Office of National Statistics.
The latest UK government data released shows that net migration currently stands at 171,000 for the year ending December 2025.
That means immigration halved in the last year, and fell by three-quarters since its 2023 peak of 900,000.
Immigration is projected to further decline to under 100,000 by the end of this year, plummeting to levels not seen since the 1990s.
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