Gail Downey: UK Correspondent on the UK's population being expected to increase over next 7 years
Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Newstalk ZB
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The UK’s population is set to skyrocket.
Net migration is expected to increase the population to 72.5 million in the next seven years – an addition of almost ten million people.
UK Correspondent Gail Downey told Andrew Dickens the statistics also reveal that almost 5 million people are leaving the country to live elsewhere.
She says the government wants to bring down the high migration levels, but won't put an arbitrary cap on the number of people coming in.
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