Has Brexit left Britain in a better state?
Many Brexiteers claim they’ve been betrayed but there are successes too. Tom Calver analyses the data on the key issues
Britain now controls who comes in to the country, meaning there is no more free movement across our borders for 447 million European citizens. The Poles and Romanians who arrived to fill low-skilled jobs have been replaced by high-skilled Indians, Nigerians and Pakistanis, data from the Department for Work and Pensions suggests. So why aren’t some Brexiteers happier?
The main reason is the sheer number of new arrivals. Official data published this week is expected to show net migration hit 700,000 last year, compared with just 223,000 at the time of the Brexit vote. Three reasons explain the rise. First, there has been a surge in foreign students whose lucrative fees prop up Britain’s universities. Second, one-off schemes enabled hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and
