Despite its Brexit promises, the government is “filling jobs with foreign workers” and has failed to control high immigration numbers.
Mass immigration was at the heart of the 2016 referendum campaign and is widely believed to have become a byword for the UK’s exit from the EU, particularly in the country’s more working-class, socially conservative areas known as “left-behind” towns.
However, figures show that there are now more migrants coming to the UK than before the referendum, with non-EU migration continuing to rise.
According to New Statesman Britain Editor Anoosh Chakelian, Tory ministers are “embracing” this fact.