Rishi Sunak urged to act on migration as population set to hit nearly 74m
Rishi Sunak came under fire from Tory right-wingers after figures showed net migration is set to swell the UK population by more than six million by the middle of the next decade.
The prime minister was warned by right-wing MPs to act after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the population could hit nearly 74 million by 2036.
Some 92 per cent 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 but was not backing a call from to introduce a cap on numbers.
