PM Keir Starmer calls urgent No10 press conference for this afternoon

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called an urgent property league successful Downing Street astatine 3pm aft a tranche of information and stats was published connected migration connected Thursday

Prime Minister Keir Starmer volition clasp an urgent property league successful Downing Street astatine 3pm aft a tranche of information was published connected migration.

The PM's spokesperson earlier accused the Tories of moving "Britain arsenic an experimentation successful unfastened borders" arsenic revised estimates revealed nett migration to the UK deed a grounds 906,000 successful 2023.

Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures indicated the measurement for the quality betwixt the fig of radical arriving and leaving the state reached the higher than antecedently thought highest successful the 12 months to June past year, aft being revised up 166,000 from the archetypal estimation of 740,000.

The estimates, covering the erstwhile Conservative government's medication anterior to the general election, person since dropped by 20% and stood astatine 728,000 successful the latest play for the twelvemonth to June 2024. A akin alteration has been made to the provisional fig for nett migration successful the twelvemonth to December 2023, which was initially estimated to beryllium 685,000 and is present thought to beryllium 866,000 - an summation of 181,000.

Meanwhile, the outgo of the UK's asylum strategy has risen to £5billion, the highest level of spending connected grounds and up by much than a 3rd successful a year, according to abstracted Home Office information published astatine the aforesaid time. The figures travel arsenic caller Tory person Kemi Badenoch admitted her enactment had failed connected migration.

Downing Street said the statistic "show that the Government inherited a concern from the erstwhile authorities wherever they had efficaciously tally Britain arsenic an experimentation successful unfastened borders" and this happened "due to the policies and decisions taken by the past government".

The Prime Minister's authoritative spokesperson would not beryllium drawn into saying whether Labour's attack would beryllium tougher than the Tories, but added that the Government had been "elected connected a mandate to alteration the state and enactment the people's priorities astatine the bosom of delivery, and that means bringing down these grounds precocious levels of ineligible migration and tackling the basal causes down it".

Earlier connected Thursday, migration curate Seema Malhotra declined to accidental what level of nett migration would beryllium acceptable erstwhile repeatedly asked for a number. Instead, she told BBC Breakfast that argumentation indispensable beryllium based connected "a credible and superior plan" and the Government should not "just propulsion figures retired of the air".

Former location secretaries James Cleverly and Suella Braverman, who person some courted hopes of becoming Tory person successful the past, claimed recognition for the driblet successful numbers portion they led the Home Office. But shadiness location caput Chris Philp said nett migration "remains acold excessively high" and the UK needs stricter borderline controls.

In a code connected Wednesday, Ms Badenoch said determination had been a "collective nonaccomplishment of governmental leaders from each parties implicit decades" to grasp migration, adding: "On behalf of the Conservative Party, it is close that I arsenic the caller person judge responsibility, and accidental truthfully we got this wrong. I much than recognize the nationalist choler connected this issue. I stock it."