OPINION - My immigration fix is simple: we must stop offering most immigrants a route to citizenship

A million here, a million there…soon you’re talking real numbers. And a million people in a single year is pretty well what we got in 2023, when the net migration figure was 903,000 – so the overall figure (not taking account of people leaving) was getting on for a million. The figures for last year were edging towards three quarters of a million … net. That is why Sir Keir Starmer has been on the stump today to announce a crackdown on “every area of the immigration system”, a “clean break” from the “broken measures” of the past.