Ben Brindle
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Jun
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This is what uncontrolled immigration looks like.
Nearly half of all homes Labour delivers vanish before a British family gets a look in.
Obviously, when the population is bigger, there are more people competing for housing in the UK.
And migration has been the main driver of population growth in recent years.
99% of UK population growth, in fact, came from international migration between June 2020 and 2024.
Now, of course, the context is really important here in that if more houses are being built, then migration will have a smaller impact on housing competition.
And if fewer houses are being built, then migration will have a bigger impact on housing competition.
But either way, it's still going to be more than in an alternative world when migration was zero and didn't increase the population.
During Labour's time in office, the housing supply has increased by more than the population has increased due to migration.
And so the population increased more during the Conservatives' time in office.
And under this calculation, that picture would look worse under them than it does under Labour.
But it would also be a little bit disingenuous to pretend that migration has no effect whatsoever on housing demand.
Clearly, more people does increase competition for homes.
Likewise, I think it is really important to point out that
governments have failed over many decades to build the new homes that we need while continuing to run high rates of immigration.
So to point those two things out is actually very fair and important.
But to equate the two and say that half of all the new build homes that we're building are going straight to recent immigrants is just preposterous, really.
Yes.
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