After the flood
Immigration figures released today by the ONS, showing net migration fell to 171,000 in 2025, are going to be weaponised by politicians that want nothing more than to keep Britain locked into a mass migration straitjacket. The Home Secretary is telling us that Labour is “restoring order and control”. The party’s backbenchers, given the scale of this drop, are now urging an abandonment of her lukewarm ILR reforms.
- ▪Immigration figures released today by the ONS, showing net migration fell to 171,000 in 2025, are going to be weaponised by politicians that want nothing more than to keep Britain locked into a mass migration straitjacket.
- ▪The Home Secretary is telling us that Labour is “restoring order and control”.
- ▪The party’s backbenchers, given the scale of this drop, are now urging an abandonment of her lukewarm ILR reforms.
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| Original publisher | The Critic |
| Canonical URL | https://thecritic.co.uk/after-the-flood/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 22 May 2026 01:00:29 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-22T01:16:36.513Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-22T01:16:37.986Z |
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Immigration figures released today by the ONS, showing net migration fell to 171,000 in 2025, are going to be weaponised by politicians that want nothing more than to keep Britain locked into a mass migration straitjacket. The Home Secretary is telling us that Labour is “restoring order and control”. The party’s backbenchers, given the scale of this drop, are now urging an abandonment of her lukewarm ILR reforms. Journalists are crawling over one another to find hyperboles that convey the sheer scale of Mahmood’s achievements, reminding us that Britain once endured net migration of 944,000. The PR blitz of today has one clear message: the immigration crisis is resolved. The country is saved. We will have peace in our time.
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