Residents in towns experiencing high immigration rates are urging Keir Starmer to address their concerns about the impact on local services and communities.
Residents living in Britain's immigration hotspots have urged Keir Starmer to stand up for their communities which they claim have been 'overrun'. The locals have revealed they fear losing access to services if the UK population keeps growing but nothing is done to increase provision. The UK's net immigration record was last month smashed again with 906,000 now thought to have been added to the population in a one-year period.
Huge revisions to official data show the extraordinary mark was hit in the year to June 2023 - and the figures remain at historically unprecedented levels. Residents in working-class towns that have seen the highest uptick in numbers say people are drawn to their areas because of cheap housing and good universities. Middlesbrough – home to roughly 150,000 people – was this summer named as being the council most-affected by immigration, registering an influx of just shy of 6,800 international migrants throughout 2023. The ONS's most up-to-date figures, therefore, imply international migration last year alone accounted for roughly 4.4 per cent of Middlesbrough's total population. Similarly high figures were logged in Coventry (4.3 per cent) and Newham in London (3.9 per cent). Stephen Edwards, also 73, a former steel worker, lives a stone's throw from Middlesbrough town centre Chris Philips, 69, has lived in Coventry for the last 30 years and says the area has gone downhill in the last few years Middlesbrough – home to roughly 150,000 people – was this summer named as being the council most-affected by immigration, registering an influx of just shy of 6,800 international migrants throughout 2023. Some locals in Middlesbrough, which has the highest rate of arrivals per capita in the country, believe migrants have flocked to their town due to cheap housin
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