The UK’s population is set to skyrocket.
Net migration is expected to increase the population to 72.5 million in the next seven years – an addition of almost ten million people.
UK Correspondent Gail Downey told Andrew Dickens the statistics also reveal that almost 5 million people are leaving the country to live elsewhere.
She says the government wants to bring down the high migration levels, but won't put an arbitrary cap on the number of people coming in.
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The UK. We go and Gale down and joins us Hellegale.
Hello Andrew, well knit.
Migration is increasing the population to seventy two and a half a million in the next seven years. That's the next to ten million people. You're booming.
We are booming and the projective figures come from the Office of National Statistics, which also reveal almost five million people are leaving the country to live elsewhere, so that's ten million in and five million out. The government says it wants to bring down the staggeringly high levels of migration, but it won't put an arbitrary cap on the numbers of people coming in. England is expected to have the highest number of immigrants, with Northern Ireland the lowest. The number of births and deaths between twenty twenty two and twenty thirty two is expected to be equal, but there will be one point seven million more pensioners now. Concern has been raised by opposition MPs. The Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philip so the number immigrating long term to the UK was shocking and unacceptable. A government spokes and said they would link immigration skills and visas to grow the domestic workforce and end the reliance on overseas labor and boost economic growth.
Have you got enough houses?
Well, that's the big thing. And of course at the moment the government is looking at how ways of encouraging developers to build more houses, which is fine except that many people don't want the houses in their backyard.
No kidding, all right. So the AMAB bombing in Northern Ireland, when did that happen?
Oh, that was back in nineteen eighty eight.
Forgive me, I figured the last interest are quite a way away before.
The peace Sorry apologies, it was actually before the Good Friday Agreement, which it was just after the Good Friday Agreement, which was the signing of a peace deal which brought to an end decades of violence known as the Troubles. So it was just you know, say it was four months after that was signed.
So with having acquire an inquiry, an awful long time after the fact that you have to say we're having an inquiry into the bombing in Northern Ireland. It killed twenty nine people and the attack was under the real IRA was the worst atrocity of the Troubles. What can we report from today, Well.
What we know today is that two Spanish students were killed in the bombing. They've been visiting the town of Omar on a language exchange group and written testimony was heard from the families giving a bit of background about them, about their personalities. We know that family members of other victims are expected to give evidence either in person or through their lawyers during the four week hearing. And as you mentioned, it's been a long time since that happened to now and the inquiry is to determine whether the bombing could have been prevented and the handling and sharing of intelligence at the time by state authorities.
That'sy good stuff, Gail Downey. I thank you so much. That is Gail Downey reporting for US out of the United Kingdom and.
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