UNDERSTANDING THE LATEST UK IMMIGRATION FIGURES (NET NON-EUROPEAN GAIN 391K)

Can you order home deliveries in the UK and legitimately be against mass immigration?

by Daniel Barge

On the back of an extremely unpopular budget designed to shore-up support among Labour backbench MPs by splurging on welfare, Keir Starmer's government is now trying to win points for its immigration policy.

Here's the BBC: 

"Net migration - the difference between the number of people arriving and leaving the UK - fell in the year to June 2025 to 204,000, the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show...Today's ONS figures mark a significant drop from 649,000 in the year to June 2024, and an even further drop when compared to when net migration peaked at 944,000 in the 12 months to March 2023."

On the face of it, this sounds great, as if Labour is finally getting to grips with an issue that has pushed Nigel Farage's Reform UK Party to the top of the polls and a potential landslide victory at the next election.

But "net migration" is a pretty meaningless term. For example, if a million Africans migrate to the UK but a million Brits leave, you have Zero net migration.

So, before anybody starts patting themselves on the back, you need to see who's coming in and who's leaving. 

The BBC vaguely tries to paint a picture:

"Among the leading causes of the drop are the fewer non-EU nationals arriving to work or study in the UK and the 'continued, gradual increase' of people leaving the country."

Meanwhile the Tories are claiming the credit:

"But to shadow home secretary Chris Philp, the fall does not go far enough and it is largely due to reforms when the Tories were last in government."

The real picture however is this:

693,000 left the UK (58% British or EU/ 42% Non-EU)

898,000 entered the UK (24% British or EU/ 76% Non-EU)

This means that:

402,000 British or EU people left the UK

215,000 British or EU people entered the UK

A net loss of Europeans of minus 187,000

And: 

291,000 Non-EU people left the UK

682,000 Non-EU people entered the UK

A net gain of non-Europeans of 391,000

This means that the UK is still rapidly becoming a less European and White country and Labour are failing abysmally.