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2w ago

Nearly Half of Britons Back Immigration Moratorium and Deportations of Recent Arrivals

Misperceptions about the scale of irregular arrivals fuel public calls for deporting recent migrants.

Hard right political party Britain First leads an anti-immigration march in Manchester
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Overview

  • A YouGov survey found 45% of Britons would support admitting no new migrants and requiring large numbers of those who arrived in recent years to leave the UK.
  • Support spans political lines, with 86% of Reform UK voters and about 27% of both Labour and Liberal Democrat supporters in favour.
  • Nearly half of respondents believe most migrants in the UK are in the country illegally despite Home Office data showing irregular arrivals account for just 4% of last year’s 948,000 newcomers.
  • Among those backing mass removals, over 90% want to deport benefit claimants and small-boat arrivals, while support falls for removing legal work migrants and asylum seekers.
  • Only 39% of mass-deportation advocates favour removing asylum seekers who entered legally, and even fewer back deporting work migrants with legal visas (44%) or foreign students (26%).