Sunak urged to act on migration as UK population projected to hit nearly 74m
Rishi Sunak was under renewed pressure as projections put net migration on course to swell the UK by more than six million people by the middle of the next decade.
The Prime Minister’s critics on the Conservative right urged him to act after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the population could reach nearly 74 million by 2036.
Some 92% of the 6.6 million projected growth – or 6.1 million people – was attributed to migration in the research based on current and past trends.
insisted Mr Sunak wants net migration to “come down quickly” but to introduce a cap on numbers.
