Migration Watch UK

The Office for National Statistics projects Britain's population will surge to over 73 million by 2035. Almost all of this growth will come from migration.

All these people will need housing, healthcare and utilities. To keep infrastructure at its 2025 per capita levels, Britain will need to:

- build over 2 million new homes
- fund 150 new hospitals
- generate an additional 21 terawatt-hours of electricity annually

Britain's infrastructure is already buckling under the strain of mass migration. If the projections are correct and millions more people migrate to Britain over the next decade, standards of living will get worse.

We simply cannot afford mass migration.

Yesterday, it was confirmed over 197,000 small boat migrants have been intercepted crossing the Channel since the UK government began tracking landings in 2018.

While the UK government refuses to publish estimates of the cost of a small boat migrant, a study from the Netherlands projected the net cost of asylum migration averages €475,000 per immigrant (approximately £410,000).

And, according to Migration Observatory, just 3% of small boat migrants who arrived in Britain between 2018 and 2024 have been removed.

Taking the known costs and removal rate into account, the small boat migrants currently in Britain could cost almost £80 billion over their lifetimes.

To put that into perspective, that's enough to repair every single pothole in England and Wales, four times over, and still have change left over to buy a new Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier for the Royal Navy.

Our government is choosing to make us poorer and weaker, because it refuses to properly enforce our border.

Why are our roads crumbling? Why can't you see a GP? Why are the schools overcrowded?

It's because successive governments have artificially increased Britain's population by millions, through mass uncontrolled migration, and our infrastructure cannot cope.

In just 30 years, London's White British population almost halved from 73.4% to 38.6%.

The last time the White British population of London halved was the Black Death (1348).

This demographic transformation has taken place despite governments of every stripe repeatedly promising to reduce migration.

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📈How has this government performed on their key migration pledges? Take a look at our analysis and how they match up (hint: NOT well).

🎂Happy one year of Keir.

🔗https://migrationwatchuk.org/news/2025/07/04/this-government-should-be-expelled/

"While Sir Keir Starmer’s apparent Damascene conversion to the immigration restrictionists’ cause, the ONS figures should sound alarm bells. You can’t just talk the issue away, Sir Keir."

Our chairman Alp Mehmet's piece for The Critic.

Politicians can’t spin mass immigration away | Alp Mehmet | The Critic Magazine The new Office for National Statistics (ONS) numbers on net migration for 2024 were published on Thursday. The good news is that they were down (nothing to do with anything Keir Starmer’s government…

"We are no longer a homogenous society. We don't any longer have a shared backstory, a shared history, a shared culture, and I don't think it bodes well for the future of our society."

Watch our chairman Alp Mehmet's interview with Patrick McCormack.

Immigration Policy: Is Britain Becoming an Island of Strangers? | Alp Mehmet x Peter McCormack Show Alp Mehmet is the Chairman of Migration Watch UK and a former British ambassador with decades of experience in immigration policy, diplomacy, and public serv...