Key questions around Cleverly’s immigration shake-up

Home Secretary James Cleverly has set out a five-point plan aimed at bringing down net migration, which hit a record high in 2022.

Here are some of the key questions:

– What is net migration?

Put simply, it’s the amount of people coming in – immigrants – minus the emigrants leaving the UK. The 2019 Tory manifesto committed to reducing “overall numbers”. The net migration figure for that year was around 219,000.

In 2022 net