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The numbers claiming refugee status have increased while net immigration is down. John Rentoul tries to make sense of the figures
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et immigration fell to 204,000 in the year to June, according to the latest estimate from the Office for National Statistics. This is the level that was the norm for several years before the EU referendum. It was considered too high by a majority of the population at the time – a view that contributed to the 52 per cent Leave vote in 2016.
