EU Net Migration Highest On Record

EU net migration has hit a record high at 184,000, the last immigration figures to be released before the referendum show. It is an increase of 10,000 on the previous year, according to the Office for National Statistics, and will be seized upon by Brexit campaigners for whom immigration is a key issue. The rise has been driven by a 17,000 increase in the number of people coming to the UK from Romania and Bulgaria in the last year, taking the total from those countries to 52,000.