Conservative leadership candidates remain silent as population growth hits 75-year high

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The Office for National Statistics released figures this morning showing that in the year to mid-2023, a gargantuan 1,084,000 people immigrated to England and Wales from outside the UK, while just 462,000 emigrated. The largest annual increase since 1948…

Meanwhile, the number of births, 598,000, was the lowest in more than two decades. Nigel Farage was, as usual, in the hot seat:

The population of England and Wales increased by almost 610,000 last year to 60.9 million, the biggest increase since census records began.

— Nigel Farage, MP (@Nigel_Farage) July 15, 2024

The Conservative leadership candidates remained silent all day, after a week of highly combative briefings and counter-briefings. Establishing a credible position on migration is seen by many as a key element in re-attracting reformist and Labour voters…