If we go back two decades the figure was 265,000 not 550,000 You seem to be confusing gross with net figures.… (View Post)

No, Cameron and May did not deliver (which was I believe part of Mortimer's point, but nor yet has Starmer or anyone else. The context for discussions of lower has long been "tens of thousa… (View Post)

You were not just responding to Mortimer's comments, you have made multiple such "mission accomplished" style comments in this thread. "There are few things that the public want t… (View Post)

So you accept that it has not been lowered to what people voted for (which under Cameron and May at least was an explicit, defined interval) but you still insist it has been accomplished anyway and w… (View Post)

Not sure what data you have but the data I looked at was 171,000 year to Dec 2025, the most recent data. 161,000 in 2008 is lower than that. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/popula… (View Post)