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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch wrote on social media that "numbers are still too high".Responding to the figures, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage wrote on X: "Not as high as the great Tory betrayal, but still disastrous."

Liberal Democrat spokeswoman Lisa Smart however, said the current government was"right to take steps to fix our broken immigration system" after it was left in "tatters" by Conservative "mismanagement".Oxford University's independent Migration Observatory said the record-breaking decline was "primarily" possible because numbers had been so high previously.The unit's head, Dr Madeleine Sumption, said: "UK migration patterns in 2023 were very unusual, with unexpectedly large numbers of visas for care workers, international students, and their family members.

"This made it easier for the government at that time to bring down the numbers."Dr Sumption predicted the changes would have little impact on the economy.

She said: "The groups that have driven the decline, such as study and work dependants, are neither the highest skilled, highest-paid migrants who make substantial contributions to tax revenues, nor the most disadvantaged groups that require substantial support."

to keep up with the inner workings of Westminster and beyond.Sam Busà, 60, is another white South African who has applied for the refugee programme.

She is the founder of Amerikaners, a platform aimed at providing information to white South Africans interested in the US resettlement offer.While Ms Busà, who is of English, not Afrikaner, descent, and her three sons have submitted their applications, they have not been interviewed yet.

While it was initially believed that the executive order, vague in its original wording, only applied to white Afrikaners, Ms Busà said it "clearly is targeting white South Africans".On Monday, the US embassy in South Africa released a statement clarifying the criteria for those applying for resettlement, which said applicants need to be: