Britain ranks the worst in immigration out of top nations as it saw biggest surge in arrivals last year

BRITAIN saw the biggest emergence successful migration past twelvemonth — much than immoderate different large economy, statistic show.

Some 746,900 “permanent-type” migrants moved to the UK from overseas — up from 488,400 successful 2022.

The 52.9 per cent hike is the highest for the world’s richest nations successful the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

South Korea ranked second, with a 50.9 per cent surge, followed by Australia with a 39.7 per cent increase.

In presumption of earthy numbers, Britain lone had less borderline arrivals than the United States’ 1.2million, and America’s colonisation is 5 times the size.

While the ballooning migration fig happened nether the past Tory government, it piles unit connected PM Sir Keir Starmer to marque bully connected his committedness to bring it down.

Rob Bates, from the Centre For Migration Control, said: “The figures amusement that Britain is present an planetary outlier, embarking connected a disastrous argumentation of mass migration astatine a gait and standard without parallel.

“We cannot proceed similar this. Without a superior effort to extremity this country’s wide migration addiction, our nationalist services volition yet buckle nether the strain and the British public’s prime of beingness volition proceed to deteriorate.”

Sir Keir’s spokesman said: “The PM has been repeatedly wide that migration has been acold excessively precocious successful caller years. It needs to travel down.”

The Tories attempted to region themselves from the contented by insisting a bundle of controls they implemented earlier this twelvemonth volition slash migration.

Net migration is forecast to settee astatine astir 300,000 a year, down from much than 700,000.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “But Labour present places each of that astatine hazard with an ideologically driven propulsion to tin that legacy, which would unfastened the doors to migration and undo each the advancement we made.”