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.@MatthewStadlen, the figures tell a partial story. Here's the rest. Net migration down 48 percent, measured from the highest artificially engineered peak in British history, driven by Conservative policy decisions in late 2023 and early 2024. Net migration at 171,000 is back to roughly where it was before the Boriswave. Non-EU net migration still stands at 350,000, roughly double pre-Brexit levels. Total arrivals in 2025 were 813,000. Nearly a million people in a single year. Small boats down 41 percent year to date. Let's examine that claim. In the first half of 2025, small boat crossings were up 48 percent on the same period in 2024 and set a new record for the first six months of any year since records began in 2018. The comparison point you are using is the record-breaking surge of 2025. Measuring a fall from your own record high isn't an achievement. It's arithmetic. And as of this afternoon, 162 migrants have crossed the Channel today alone. A former chief border inspector is warning that many hundreds more will attempt the crossing in coming days as the heatwave makes conditions ideal. The summer surge has begun. The cumulative picture tells the real story. Over 200,000 people have crossed the Channel illegally since 2018. Only around 7,500, roughly 4 percent, have been returned. Returns and deportations up 7 percent sounds impressive until you note that the removal rate remains catastrophically low. A 7 percent improvement on near zero is still near zero. The official estimate of people living in Britain without authorisation is between 700,000 and 900,000, though a study commissioned by Thames Water and obtained by the Telegraph under freedom of information suggests the true figure may exceed one million nationally, with up to 585,000 in the capital alone. That's one in thirteen of London's population. The data underpinning that study dates from 2017, before the Channel crossing surge began in earnest. The real figure today is almost certainly considerably higher. None of them appear in any of your statistics. And none of this addresses what is happening on the ground. Yesterday seven Afghan nationals appeared in Norwich charged with 40 offences including rape and human trafficking of teenage girls. On the same day seven men including an Iranian and a Syrian appeared in Bristol charged with over 40 offences against eleven teenage victims. Numbers on a spreadsheet do not capture what is being dispersed into British communities. That's the story the statistics do not tell.

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