Net migration to UK shows largest annual fall since records began

EU nationals - three-quarters returning native country

EU migrants - still coming - down - Brexit

French, Germans, Spanish & Poles

economic changes across the EU

fewer for work - EU citizens - definite job - similar

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anxiety - EU nationals - future - documents - permanent residence status - 12 months since the referendum

EU nationals - expensive British citizenship - + 2x

net migration - outside EU - visa system - fall - but: higher than EU migration

numbers - study - fall – majority outside EU

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decline - follow historically high levels of immigration - long-term trend

Brexit - factor - move to or from the UK

professor of economics - not good news - UK less attractive place to live and work - be poorer - result

The shadow home secretary

time - Tories - drop their “meaningless” target of reducing net migration below 100,000

many sectors - severe staff shortages (NHS - social care)

highest level - EU emigration - 2008 recession

improved job opportunities

fall - value - pound

Madeleine Sumption of the Migration Observatory

fall value pound & increased uncertainty about future status - UK less attractive

unclear - decline - due to Brexit or happened anyway

fall in EU migration --> London - industries (food manufacturing & hospitality) - staff turnover & reliant on migrant labour

government - Brexit - success - reverse this