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the numbers down. in a moment we ll get more from our political correspondent jonathan blake but first let s speak to our head of data robert cuffe. and robert is in the newsroom. the main number is 600,000 people coming through and 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 green line is the number of people adding to the uk population from outside the eu and that is accounting for more than 600,000, more than the total net migration into the uk, and if you look at the blue line, people from the eu, or people from the eu left the uk last year and came in more people. so what is driving it is migration from outside the eu and it is clear that study and work are top of the list