OPINION - We must face the truth: these sky-high immigration figures will have profound consequences for Britain

A million is a nice round figure, so consider this: in the year ending in June this year some 1.2 million people came to live in Britain. More than a million of them came from outside Europe. That’s quite a big deal, no, for one year? To employ the usual metric, it is over a third the size of Wales. Over 80 per cent of immigrants to Britain – 86 per cent, to be precise – are from outside the EU, and it has been over 80 per cent every year since 2022.