and an avalanche of tributes to the music legend tina turner. we talk to a journalist who saw one of her first concerts. hello and welcome. welcome to three hours of breaking life stories and checking out the truth behind them. we start with net migration to the uk, which reached record levels last year. 606,000 people were added to the population, as more people moved to the uk than left the country. the numbers were boosted by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of international students, and skilled workers, including more than 200,000 nurses and carers. the prime minister, rishi sunak, has said net migration is too high and he wants to bring the numbers down. earlier, i asked our head of data, robert cuffe, to break it down for us. the main number is 600,000 people coming through, the main reasons why we are seeing such a large number is people coming to the uk from outside the eu, migration within the eu is actually not that substantial, and i can show you that now. the
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people coming from ukraine and under the bno scheme. not many people come to study and stay for ever. even if the government did nothing at all we would still probably see the numbers coming down and they are doing something, they are trying to bear down on asylum seekers and also people bring their families with them when they come to study so that might have an impact on the numbers. the question for them politically is whether that will have an effect in the next couple of years before the next election. ., ., ., ., election. you mention asylum and there are large election. you mention asylum and there are large numbers election. you mention asylum and there are large numbers in - election. you mention asylum and there are large numbers in terms| election. you mention asylum and i there are large numbers in terms of there are large numbers in terms of the backlog of cases? yes. there are large numbers in terms of the backlog of cases? the backlog of cases? yes. the number o
people coming for exceptional circumstances like ukraine and the special british national overseas programme for people from hong kong. with asylum and joining family who are already in the uk bring up the rear and terms of the reasons why people are coming. we always look for trends, has this peaked in terms of the headline number? there are suggestions the numbers are coming down and if you look at the reasons, you can work out why. when i add in this blue line that there is what the reasons for people coming were the year before, in 2021, and what has done a lot of the rising is in the middle, people coming from ukraine and under the bno scheme. hopefully those are one off, right? with the war in ukraine we have already seen the number of people coming has started to slow down. there are fewer people coming. this probably be a lower number in 2023. looking at the number of people who have come to study. it s come up a little bit.
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