Nearly half of voters support ending immigration and deporting large numbers of people who have arrived in the UK in recent years, a new poll has shown.
The YouGov survey found that 45 per cent of Brits backed a scenario where no new migrants were admitted and large numbers of recent arrivals were required to leave.
Such a scenario was supported by 86 per cent of Reform UK voters, while it was also backed by sizeable minorities of Labour and Liberal Democrat voters (27 per cent).
But the YouGov research also suggested there was a common misconception about immigration among the British public.
Almost half of respondents (47 per cent) thought there are more migrants staying in the UK illegally rather than legally.
