{"id":221141,"date":"2025-06-28T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T10:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221141\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T10:57:09","slug":"eu-blasts-brexit-and-say-its-to-blame-for-migration-crisis-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221141\/","title":{"rendered":"EU blasts Brexit and say it’s to blame for migration crisis | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

An EU research paper has sparked controversy after blaming Brexit for the UK’s migration crisis<\/a>. The study, titled “The Brexit<\/a> paradox: How leaving the EU led to more migration”, points the finger of blame squarely at the UK’s decision to leave the bloc.<\/p>\n

It claims that the post-Brexit<\/a> “liberalisation of migration laws” by the Tories<\/a> following the historic vote led to a huge spike in foreign arrivals. Data shows that net migration soared almost fourfold to 906,000 in 2023 from 248,000 at the time of the 2016 referendum.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite concerns about migration prompting many British citizens to vote in favour of the UK\u2019s withdrawal from the EU in the Brexit<\/a> referendum in June 2016, the country has paradoxically attracted significantly more migrants since leaving,\u201d the paper\u2019s authors wrote.<\/p>\n

The researchers drew a parallel to Tony Blair’s decision to allow unrestricted access to the UK for citizens from 10 new EU member states in 2004.<\/p>\n

“When 10 countries joined the EU, the UK government decided, unlike most EU countries, not to impose any restrictions, which resulted in a greater than expected influx of migrants,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Reform UK’s leader has dismissed the study as “total nonsense,” saying the UK government is solely to blame for immigration failure.<\/p>\n

Frank Furedi, executive director of the MCC Brussels think tank, also told The Telegraph<\/a>: “The EU still has not overcome the trauma caused by Brexit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“For that reason it has devoted considerable resources towards propaganda that demonises post-Brexit<\/a> Britain<\/p>\n

The sharp rise in net migration after Brexit<\/a> was driven by an increase in non-EU citizens coming to the UK.<\/p>\n

This was a result of various policy schemes introduced by consecutive Tory governments.<\/p>\n

These included reintroducing a post-study work route, opening new humanitarian visa routes for Ukrainians and citizens from Hong Kong, as well as issuing visas to foreign care workers.<\/p>\n

Data from the Office for National Statistics suggests that total net migration was 431,000 in 2024.<\/p>\n

This figure<\/a> represents around half of the level recorded in the year ending June 2023, when net migration peaked at a historical high of 906,000, but is above pre-pandemic estimates of between 200,000 and 300,000 .<\/p>\n

However, number of small boat arrivals has increased substantially since 2018, with around 37,000 people detected crossing the Channel last year.<\/p>\n

That was a quarter more than the year before and the second-highest annual figure.<\/p>\n

Arrivals look set to soar this year, with 14,800 small boat crossings already reported between January and May. This represents the highest ever number for this period, and 42% more than last year.<\/p>\n

It comes after a Labour minister admitted it was like a “taxi” service<\/a> when small boat arrivals surged to a daily record for this year<\/p>\n

Defence Secretary John Healey conceded that Britain had “lost control of its borders” after 1,194 migrants made the dangerous Channel crossing earlier this month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An EU research paper has sparked controversy after blaming Brexit for the UK’s migration crisis. The study, titled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,5322,748,12191,2000,39895,299,5187,1699,4884,40,384,87356,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-221141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brexit-news","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-conservatives","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-eu-parliament","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-immigration","19":"tag-nigel-farage","20":"tag-small-boats-crossings","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}