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The 13.7 million figure of long-term immigration covered a 15-year period between mid-2021 and mid-2036. By the time of the election campaign, three years of immigration has already passed and the remaining total for the next 12 years is 10.3 million
But this is just immigration, not net population change - that's a very different story:
[The ONS] assumes a net migration figure of 315,000 each year from 2028 onwards, made up of 827,000 immigrants and 512,000 emigrants.
315,000 a year over 12 years is 3.78m, a slightly different picture from what Reform are trying to paint. It's amazing what stories you can tell by cherry-picking statistics!
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