{"id":121860,"date":"2023-11-21T08:49:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T08:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/?p=121860"},"modified":"2023-11-21T08:49:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T08:49:06","slug":"rishi-sunak-requested-delay-of-record-high-migration-stats-to-avoid-humiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/politics\/rishi-sunak-requested-delay-of-record-high-migration-stats-to-avoid-humiliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak requested delay of record high migration stats to avoid humiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rishi Sunak reveals government working on ‘new treaty with Rwanda’<\/h3>\n

The ONS has slapped down the Government after it was requested they delay the publication of immigration figures on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Rishi Sunak and others are reportedly concerned that figures from the official statistics body may show those entering the UK in the year to June 2023 exceeded 700,000, which would be a new record high.<\/p>\n

Now the Government is worried that the figures will knock coverage of what they are hoping is a feel-good tax-cutting Autumn Statement off the front pages.<\/p>\n

Despite hopes migration may have fallen over the last year, it now looks like the Government is on course to have totally failed in controlling the borders once again.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s figure of 606,000 would be blown out of the water by a hike to 700,000.<\/p>\n

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Despite an expected fall in the number of Ukrainian and Hong Kong refugees, Home Office figures show a 50 percent increase in the number of foreign nationals who have successfully applied to extend their permission to stay in the UK.<\/p>\n

105,000 people received visa extensions for work, studying or family reasons in the first six months of this year.<\/p>\n

This morning the Sun revealed that the Government asked the ONS to delay releasing the provisional immigration figures, timetabled for this Thursday, to avoid clashing with Jeremy Hunt\u2019s Autumn Statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

However, the ONS has now slapped the request down and confirmed it intends to push ahead with publishing the embarrassing statistics on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

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