Caps on migrant numbers 'don't really work' - says Sky News' Ed Conway 

Anyone remember when immigration was 200,000 and the Tories claimed Labour had opened the floodgates? If Labour opened the floodgates, the Tories decimated the dam wall.

Caps mean nothing when the bottle is full of holes.

The working class are in a conflict for resources. Housing, health care, school places and wages.

Replaced Europeans with 200% more non-Europeans.

Saying there’s going to be a cap and enforcing a cap are two different things

350,000 Indians migrated to the UK last year as Rishi sorted them out

Sky actually doing a decent job. Actually showing statistics rather than feelings.

The small boats maybe low in number but they are costing the taxpayers 15 million pounds a day, that's the problem.

Of course they work. They are just not enforced.

Students don’t need to bring dependents. That needs to be stopped now.

It’s the dependents, one worker can bring over a family of 5??

The presenter talking about 'fuelling wage inflation' for hardworking people from the UK as if its a bad thing is quite telling about how these journalists think, they essentially want to keep the majority of British peoples wages down why they enjoy living in a wealthy bubble. These numbers are absolutely insane and shouldn't be justified as somehow being a good thing for our county at best they are just a band aid for the failure to educate and train our own people by replacing them with foreigners.

Stop calling them asylum seekers because they travelled through so many safe European countries to get here, they know about our generosity and that's their focus. Other countries are more stricter on what's expected from them and they need to work and pay taxes.

The boats are just a small problem , how many millions of Indians has he let into this country on working visas

Probably one of the best reports I've seen on immigration.

People care more about the small boats because these are unchecked people and 95% young men. The students who enter legally are mostly safe so even though the numbers are higher they are less concerning

The Sky News journalists happy to see wages low and asset prices increasing. Driving down wages for their nannies, gardeners and domestics.

Tory just did things theoretically. Nothing was done in practice. Time is up for them😂

Blair started it and the Tories made it worse. But we got rid of the hard workers under the Tories.1 Polish person is worth 20 of what is coming over ( and a sick, dry humour to add to it ). Ofc there are many skilled people from India that come over, but what a mess in general

There was no "legal cap" written in law. It was a vague political pledge. Ed. .... The main issue surely is 700,000 a year is not sustainable, without a plan to house and provide public services , shcool places hospitals etc. At some point the country will stop functioning, if it already hasnt stopped functioning due to this insane policy.

Of course countries can enforce no immigration if they actually care about their people see Denmark! Of course politicians here don't care.

Keep it at zero

Just for context. According to the last immigration figures from the ONS, 1,200,000 people migrated into the UK (gross) in 2023, which is the size of a city larger than Glasgow arriving (8/10 countries in the top 10 arriving are non-Western). 685,000 people arrived as a net figure in 2023 (gross figure minus the number of people leaving the UK), that is similar to the size of a city like Sheffield arriving. In a single year. This means, on average and roughly, that every single minute 1.3 people arrive in the UK. Quite literally a 'migrant a minute'. (edit: typo)

Just swapped all of my last ETH and swapped it into AMS24HT. Already up a little bit. Unfortunately I have some other junk staked which won’t free up for a while. Still now I am on the train!

There should be zero illegal migration no exemptions

Immigration is astronomically out of control in this country. This is replacement.

still cant get a GP appointment

I think he means that caps on migration don't work if no one actually does anything to cap migration.

4:18 Thanks Boris for your ready-made deal that open up borders to anyone.

An international student pays £18500.00 per year at University. This I s addiction that will never end for the UK Government.

+1 for Brexit!!

Work & [ Dependents ] Study & [ Dependents] What is the [ Dependents] numbers above ??

Interesting thing is because of Brexit people aren't leaving the country, so that also accounts as to why we have the highest number of people entering and not leaving.

It's financing itself AND many public sector wages. So why complain? Immigrants are literally paying over 1000£ a year each just to access the NHS. The path of a family of 4 to get permanent residence after 5 years costs about £50K and the parents need to earn well above average wages. Almost all of the immigration is for work.

The irony is that the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians, Romans, Danes and Normans all came to the island of Great Britain illegally on small boats but the largest wave of migration in the entire history of the island came legally while the Tory government was in charge.

WHY don't they work? Do we not have control of who comes in? Or do the cabinet just disagree with the will of the people and so willfully ignore them?

Always on point Ed Conway!

Uk is just a new state of india 😂

On legal migration: 1) People have been able to enter the UK to work, but these are not doctors and engineers, but overwhelmingly low income jobs, with the minimum income of £13,000 previously. Plus families. 2) Unless someone earns over ~£35,000, they are a net cost to the economy. Add in non-working family members and one needs to earn more. 3) If we have net immigration of 1 million each year and build 250,000 homes, it causes a housing crises. 4) This is not about racism or xenophobia, but the realisation our infrastructre cannot cope with the current population. 5) Caps did not work as there was never any sincerity in them with the hope the issue would blow over. 6) Why do students need to bring their families? 7) Our workforce shortage can be filled by reducing the size of the State and move civil servants to the private sector and closing universities. And cap the time allowed on sick benefit with stress and anxiety to 3 months, which will free up over 1m workers.

The gdp isn't worth it.

why should we even pay taxes at this point

The economy is not doing well and immigration has still gone up for two reasons : one declining emigration and two the structure of the UK economy which generates undesirable low wage jobs.

Same problems here in Australia, which people point to as partly the reason for the housing crisis the country is experiencing.

Was: We don't have enough service workers - we need mass immigration. Then: look at all the new people needing services, we need more immigration for sure.... Circular logic. In the meantime housing, jobs and services get ever worse and we are seeing a race and culture replaced. I'd rather be poor as long as I can be with my own people.

5:32 So basically, when Blair got in Immigration went wild.

20 years from now, Europe will be a wonderful place to live in

Coming to work and actually working is not the same thing. And coming to work on a low wage job, paying few or no taxes, it's a net negative for a country that has large expenditure on public services and polices.

Despite what they may say Labour and Conservatives dont care about reducing these stats, they have actively caused them. Its a GDP boost at the expense of quality of life at ground level.

wow almost 200K of "other", that's roughly 20% of the total, but unclassified... I wonder what that is

They are not here to study. Its just a front to stay...

Small botes are the biggest cost.... Th3 cost to house, feed give nhs etc to them is far far higher than work related immigration or study immigration. Huge differences

Thanks for the explanation.

Students usually go back home after they complete their courses, obviously lots over stay, but 80% do go back, unlike the other groups. Students also pay their way

since when is 50+ people on a boat small?

This is not an immigration policy. This is a population policy. Most of pople concerns on personal economic issue only, such as employment and public services, such as NHS. Pliticians diverts the focus from lack of population policy or public services.

When politicians talk about migration, why are these charts shown and asked specific questions?

I like Farage but any promise to bring net migration to zero is about as believable as the one on the side of Boris' bus.

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Very nice. Now lets do it again, with a chart in the background of crime levels over the years. Hmm, that would be interesting.

Well they would say that, wouldn’t they

When there tension between countries, there migration

How many flights to rawanda left the U.K. this week ?

The landlords and companies in this country love it. Rent out box rooms for crazy prices, part-time contracts only so companies keep their bills down and avoid tax obligations, suppress the wages, I could go on…….

Why can’t we just only let in as many people as leave?. Also only let people in with jobs to go too?

Seeing Indians everywhere in uk now Sunak done his job he is a Indian

Who was saying it’s all about small boats? It’s such an obvious instance of a disgraceful government who could just turn them back. It’s a clear sign of the bare minimum being beyond our political class. I’ve not heard anyone saying it’s the majority or entirely the problem.

They didn't want Polish who live 30 minutes away from Berlin they prefer from Ghana and Pakistan and all over the world

Damn! We are talking about illegal migration not the legal because we know who they are! Typical MSN!

All started with Blair and his comrades. Enjoy the next 10 years of Labour!

Sunak has opened the gate like no other

correlate this to your previous report about decline in disposable household income since 1992. Also 1980 till 1992 was the boom era for wealth generation.

To much migrant , even migrant think it's mess

People who come for study pays university fee. People who work pay taxes and helps in growth of uk economy.. government spending money on people who comes on boats… and the money comes through taxes going in the other way

Cotswolds and cornwall is like walking around in a forein country now !! No way are these figures right , this year ive really noticed how rare a british person is now

We've never had caps - it was all talk and lies.

Not with open borders.

Those don't come to study

I was under the impression many people migrated to the colonies in North America, Australia, NZ, South Africa, etc. But it seems the British population decline was already tiny in 19th century.

Governments issues Visas for legal immigration so it’s a political decision and they have ultimate control. So Tory Governments have chosen to allow higher migration so they need to explain why. I suspect they know it’s good economically but don’t have backbone to explain this to the public and justify their actions but just play politics. We need a grown up conservation across all political parties about immigration and the impact if it’s restricted to very low levels ie. Lower growth, higher taxes, lower pensions etc. rather than blaming immigration and government issuing more Visas. So stop playing politics and grow up and educate the public about this subject. Brexit was in part about immigration and clearly that was a lie because the Tory’s have allowed immigration to increase post Brexit even though they argued it was the EU that stopped them controlling it pre Brexit.

What's missing from these graphics is the numbers with hepC for example who've come from Ukraine (where there was 3 millions infected) or the Mahgreb countries where the infection rates were: . ... ....... 10.10% for Turkey 18.7% for Egypt 14.7% for Lybia & 14.3% for Morocco Just for hepC and not other illnesses, such as HIV TB or others

It would appear that it ìs not enough as we are short of workers.

There's thousands that overstay their visitors visa. What about these figures

The tens of thousands thing from the Tories was an aspiration and not a cap. Why is the presenter treating that like it was a cap?

If it don't work basically in the next 20 years we will not have a UK we will have a third world country run down and probably looking like Africa or Bangladesh if not worst we need to do something ASAP not just say it won't work

Let’s end the NHS myth once and for all: 1. Only 110,748 licensed doctors in the UK as at 2021 were internationally trained. 2. in the year ending June 2021, there were: 6.0 million people were living in the UK who had the nationality of a different country (9% of the total population). 3. This means of 6 million migrants only 110,000 were Doctors. That means only 1.82% of migrants were actually Doctors. 4. Most new registrations by internationally trained doctors from 2009-2019 did not have a specialty at the time of initial registration (96.2% in 2019). Only a relatively small number of these doctors go on to gain specialist or GP registration (11.6% within 5 years) THE UK IS NOT IMPORTING SURGEONS. FINALLY: The Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health Workforce 2030 stipulates that countries need to halve their dependence on foreign-trained professionals by 2030. Given the UK’s commitment to the WHO Global Code, the reliance on the international recruitment of doctors to address workforce shortages is not a desired or sustainable solution. This has been recognised in the 2023 NHS Long-Term plan which stipulates that in the long-term the UK needs to train sufficient doctors to meet domestic demand

6:03. wages would go up! Oh nooo!! What a horrible thing!!

So is the croak rate.

Caps worked fine early 90s

The claim about filling shortages is just not true. In the tech sector, hundreds of thousands of workers were brought in during previous years, and now UK citizens with degrees are struggling to find jobs in IT. Ironically, the government still provides funds to bootcamps.

It's not about the numbers, it's about how the NHS can't cope and housing problems etc.

Students bringing there families over too - it really is unbelievable we are just a benefit haven 😂 anyone who manages to get their self here every credit - I do not blame them in the slightest

Amazing analysis

I went to lincoln yesterday and didnt hear anyone speaking English it was like i was in another country 🤦‍♂️

4 millon british people unemployed on benefits could go back to work instead of relying on foreign workers.

Uk is an island country with small land area, How many houses.schools hospitals are there in UK? A large number of net immigrants in to the UK would make indigenous British a minority.

Just look at Canada, France, England.... Awful!!!!!!

UK definitely needs more migration. I can't even get to see a doctor in 2 months time, an hour wait in the pharmacy and got told that my meds are out of stock due to Brexit! How foolish and selfish the Brexiters!

Visa data only cover people who require visas, which means that before the end of 2020, EU citizens were not included in the figures. So: many sectors needed European workforce, eg NHS, and in this new highs we take into account people who are replacing who cannot come anymore. I am surprised the video is not covering this aspect. I am not surprised Tories are not covering this instead

Are people come to UK to work or study making this country unsafe and the economy worse?

I'm working with a guy that arrived here (legally) from Nigeria less than 3 months ago 😬