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  • 22/05/2025
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says the fall in net migration "is important and welcome” but admits the government needs to go “significantly further”. The figure stood at an estimated 431,000 in the year ending December 2024, down 49.9% from 860,000 a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics said. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well net migration quadrupled under the Conservative government so this reduction in
00:04numbers is important and welcome but we need to go significantly further and that's why we're
00:10introducing new visa controls and also stronger language requirements as part of our immigration
00:17white paper as well as increasing returns from those who have no right to be in the UK. We need
00:24control and order back in the system.

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