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Originally Posted by Lucysgirl

Governments decide on immigration policy, although I remember being taught that Queen Victoria had said all peoples of the Empire were her children.

The two groups were (a) EU immigrants; (b) non EU immigrants

Below are two sites for comparison - neither of which is the one I saw (and now can't find) but the numbers look about the same

Migration Watch UK | Statistics-net-migration-statistics

UK migration: What's really happening? - BBC News

Excuse me? weren't you throwing in the 1947 thingy?
Now you make it EU? make your mind up how you want to play the game.