Kay Oliver: UK correspondent on net migration hitting record highs

The British Government intends to overhaul the country’s immigration system after new data shows arrivals had hit a record high.

New figures show net migration is at 900,000 in the year to June 2023, which Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer blames on the previous Conservative government — 22 percent higher than the original numbers.

He says they had pledged to get the numbers down multiple times and failed every time.

UK correspondent Kay Oliver told Heather du Plessis-Allan the big question remains how much of it is legitimate and genuine, but also how much of it is uncontrolled.

Meanwhile, ex-soldier Daniel Khalife has been found guilty of spying for Iran, and the world’s oldest man John Tinniswood, who was born the same year the Titanic sank, has died aged 112.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
With us. Now is Kay Oliver, our UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hello, Okay, hello to Heather.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Give me the immigration numbers because that off the.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Chats well absolutely, Now this is an extraordinary vision of
the government estimates. But if the growth that we currently
have continues, we're going to have fifteen new cities the
size of Birmingham by twenty forty six. Now, the Office
of National Statistics has released these figures showing us staggering
nine hundred thousand people were added to the UK's population

(00:31):
for the year ending June twenty twenty three. That's twenty
two percent higher than the original numbers, which in itself
was an all time high. So we've got to secure Starmer.
The new Labor Prime Minister basically accuse the previous Tory
government of using Brexit to pursue an open borders experiment.
And this latest study has shown, for example, that you've

(00:54):
got places like Middlesbrough with a population that was standing
at around one hundred fifty thousand. They've had a four
point four percent increase in just that particular area alone.
So you've now kind of got more in depth breakdowns
of where everyone's heading to.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
So is this actually immigration that's been pursued by the
government ors it sort of just arrived on your doorstep.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, I think there's a bit of both of this
going on here that this is the big question. I mean,
some of this obviously is legitimate immigration into this country,
and then you've also got this more uncontrolled immigration going
and we've got these boats coming in. But now a
lot of these people are kind of genuine people who've
come in and they've they've been the families of careers,
people working in the National Health Service, and they've actually

(01:39):
been allowed to come in as long as they've made
the hit the criteria of earning a certain amount of
money and bringing something into this country. But it would
seem that if it carries on, this is an absolute
population explosion.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah. Absolutely, Hey does chep the former British soldier Danial
Khalif sounds like an absolute numpty, doesn't he?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well he is. This is the chap who escaped from
the category b WS was prison by tying himself with
old inmates trousers. He may managed to make a sling
and got himself on the underside of a food delivery
Lorrie last September. He was on the run for three
days he's finally gone to court and now he's been
found guilty. He's twenty three years of age. By the way,

(02:21):
former soldier. He has been found guilty of handing information
including a list of soldiers, some of whom were serving
in the sas, to Iranian spies. Now jury has rejected
his claim that he was actually undertaking a one man
double agent mission. His own lawyer said it was more
more like Scooby Doo than James Bond. So we wait

(02:42):
to see what sentence is going to be given out
to him.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
All right, you have done the research on how does
chep got to live to one hundred and twelve? What
have you got?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well? I did, because today is Friday. And it seems
that John dennisaur did love his fish and chips. So
that's what he was. That's what kept him going for
a hundred and twelve years. I mean, he was born
the same year that the Titanic sank. And apparently he
was also a lifelong fan of Liverpool Liverpool Football Club.

(03:10):
So as I said to you, he loved his music.
So there we go the secret to long life.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
So football, music and fish and chips.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Absolutely, you've got it.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
I can go. I can get on board with that.
Thank you for that, Kay, I appreciate It's Kay Oliver,
our UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
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