good afternoon. net migration to the uk hit a record level last year almost three quarters of a million more people coming to live here than leaving. the figure stood at 745,000 last year, according to the office for national statistics, higher than previously thought. but the indications are that net migration is now slowing. in 2010, the then prime minister david cameron promised to bring it down to the tens of thousands. our home editor mark easton is here with more details. mark. the figure i think most people will be looking at and the one that will raise eyebrows is the right advised net migration figure for 2022. 745,000 more people came to the uk than left, helping push the population of england and wales up at its fastest rate since the baby boom of the early 1960s. now, the latest net migration figure for the year tojune this year is 672,000. down a bit from what we now think happened last year and it looks like net migration is maybe on a downward trajectory. who
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The wife of Russian politician Sergey Mironov forcibly took a Ukrainian girl and boy from occupied Kherson to adopt them, but abandoned the boy after it became clear he had ill health, Ukrainian news outlet TSN reported on April 28.