The deputy leader of Reform, Richard Tice, recently claimed in at least one national newspaper that:
..the statistics show without a doubt that this Labour government has allowed the biggest influx of migrants in British history
A fact-checking organisation. Full Fact, looked into this, and surprise surprise, it isn’t true.
As the Independent reports them saying:
…when we asked Oxford University’s Migration Observatory about Mr Tice’s claim, it told us: “We cannot identify any data that support the assertion that the current government has been responsible for the biggest influx of migrants in British history,
Trying to find some way in which it might be true they looked also at the number of migrants crossing the channel even though that quite clearly isn’t what Tice said – and the small boat kind of migrants are a tiny fraction of all migrants. But even that doesn’t seem to be true.
In the view of both Full Fact and the Migration Observatory, statistics from the Office of National Statistics:
…appear to suggest that the “biggest influx” of migrants on record so far took place under the previous Conservative government. The Migration Observatory believes this is the case, telling us: “Data clearly show that the ‘biggest influx of migrants in British history’ took place under the previous administration.”