{"id":30826,"date":"2026-05-21T21:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/30826\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T21:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:36:32","slug":"whats-behind-the-massive-drop-in-net-migration-to-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/30826\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s behind the massive drop in net migration to the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"What&#039;s behind the massive drop in net migration to the UK?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XdtTPf_Yqo4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s behind the massive drop in net migration to the UK?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe prime minister insists he is &#8220;getting on and delivering&#8221; as net migration has fallen to the lowest level since 2012, excluding the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir Starmer told ITV News he is &#8220;really proud&#8221; of the progress the government has made on migration, waiting lists and economic growth &#8211; but refused to answer questions about his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The PM denied the good news was &#8220;too little too late&#8221; saying, &#8220;this is really good delivery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is really significant, so I&#8217;m very, very pleased, all of those figures are good news, taken together they&#8217;re a very strong package,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s behind the massive drop in net migration to the UK? The prime minister insists he is &#8220;getting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[8845,31961,31962,23033,380,379,31959,263,18554,31957,9614,31963,31955,582,31960,20672,31958,20669,19189,2601,31956,267],"class_list":["post-30826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-breaking-uk-news","tag-economic-growth-uk","tag-government-performance-uk","tag-immigration-uk","tag-itv","tag-itv-news","tag-itv-news-interview","tag-keir-starmer","tag-labour-government","tag-migration-falls-uk","tag-migration-policy","tag-migration-statistics-uk","tag-net-migration-uk","tag-news-uk","tag-nhs-waiting-lists","tag-political-news-uk","tag-starmer-interview","tag-starmer-leadership","tag-uk-current-affairs","tag-uk-economy","tag-uk-migration-figures","tag-uk-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}