Migrant Movements - who's coming and who's leaving the UK

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Revised figures from the Office for National Statistics show net migration to the UK reached record levels last year. Seven hundred and forty-five thousand more people came to the country than left in 2022 - up almost a-hundred-and-forty-thousand on the initial figure. The ONS said the population of England and Wales grew by an estimated 1% in the year to June 2022 - the fastest rate since the baby boom in the 1960s, but this time it was driven by international migration. But it cautioned its estimates could be revised again - and provisional figures to June of this year suggest the rate of net migration may now be slowing. So what are we to make of these figures - and is the situation in the UK being reflected elsewhere. Our Home and Legal correspondent, Dominic Casciani, has the answers in this episode of our 5 Questions on podcast. Image Credit: Getty Creative