Politicians slashed migration. Now they face the consequences

The article first appeared in The Economist on June 22, 2025.

LAST YEAR net migration to Britain halved: the country’s population grew by just 431,000, down from 860,000 in 2023. In the final quarter of 2024 some 60,000 people, net, moved to Canada, a drop from 420,000 in mid-2023. In April net migration to America slowed to an annualised pace of 600,000, an enormous fall from 4m or so in 2023. In March net migration to New Zealand was down by 80% from its peak in late 2023…

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