Mixed messages

ONS and OfS reports give rise to contrasting views of international education

All eyes this morning are on the Office for National Statistics. At 9.30am, it will publish long-term international migration statistics for the year ending December 2022, and it is not expected to make pleasant reading for the government.

Machinations in Westminster this week seem designed to mitigate the reaction to the statistics, which are expected to show that net migration to the UK has continued its post-Brexit surge—despite successive governments assuring their core (often immigration-sceptic) voters that they have a handle on such things.