UK net migration drops to less than 300,000 after Brexit

The net migration figure released in the wake of the EU referendum last which rose to a record high of 333,000 was used as a good ground for the leave campaigners to win massive support from the British people. This is because the likes of Michael Gove and Boris Johnson capitalised on the figure to blame the then Prime Minister David Cameron of "corroding public trust," after he failed to reduce net migration "tens of thousands," as he promised.

Though as at today, no change has been effected concerning the UK’s immigration policy, however, there could possibly be other post-Brexit motivations on migration which may either be social, economic or emotional.

Though net migration has reduced from over 335,000 to about 273,000 for the first time in the past three years. Even though the current figure is far higher than the proposed figure by the government, Brexit could be seen to be positively yielding the needed result in that respect.

Although not all of this is to do with the EU - there has been a fall in numbers coming from Africa and Asia. The Government puts the later down to measures they've introduced such as clamping down on bogus colleges.

What's more the E15, consisting of the wealthier Western European Counties such as France and Germany, has remained flat.

Nonetheless it was revealed that there has been a decline in numbers coming from E8 countries and an increase in the numbers returning. These are the nations who joined the EU block in 2004, such as Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

In 2016, 10,000 fewer people came to the UK from this region than in 2015 and the numbers leaving went up by a third to 39,000.

However, there is another group, the Romanians and Bulgarians, who only earned the right to free movement to the UK when a transitional cap expired in January 2014.

These two countries have seen their biggest ever rise of 19,000 to 74,000. That could be motivated by a desire to establish themselves in the UK before post-Brexit restrictions come into force.

The next two years could see this trend increase - with migrants from these poorer countries racing to get under the bar, while those from wealthier more established EU nations look for a more stable future.