Leaving the UK for good

Covid-19 has sparked the largest fall in Britain’s population since the Second World War as 1.3m immigrants left the UK between the third quarter of 2019 and the same period in 2020, reports the Financial Times.

Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, January 25th, 2021

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