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The ‘Boriswave’ Powering the Carousel of Scapegoats
Post-Brexit supply chain pressures and a series of international crises all resulted in a significant rise in net migration in recent years. The measures taken were supported at the time – but the public wants to ‘have it both ways’, writes James Bloodworth
In September, Nigel Farage announced that a Reform UK government would abolish ‘indefinite leave to remain’ for immigrants to permanently settle in the UK, and that it would rescind the status of those who had already been granted it. This, he said, was necessary to “wake everybody up to the Boriswave”.
The ‘Boriswave’, which has seeped out of the fever swamps of Elon Musk’s X and into mainstream politics, refers to the liberal immigration policy overseen by then Prime Minister Boris Johnson following the UK’s exit from the European Single Market in 2021.
Net migration – inward migration minus the number of people who emigrated from the UK – during and after Johnson’s tenure was 254,000 (2021), 634,000 (2022), and 906,000 (2023).
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