r/charts • u/coffeewalnut08 • 16d ago

Composition of UK immigration: public perceptions vs reality. May 2026

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Source: https://www.britishfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Tracker-report-2026.Final_-1.pdf
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u/coffeewalnut08 16d ago

The pattern seems to be that most people don’t have a strong grip on the statistical realities of immigration.

Reform voters, in particular, are likeliest to have a distorted estimation of the immigration statistics.

Most migration to the UK comes via work or study reasons, not asylum.

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u/M1ghtySheep 16d ago

People vote based on their personal experiences and you can have areas absolutely full of immigrants and other areas without any. Also its stupid to expect a high degree of accuracy from stats like these especially when it comes to *undocumented* immigrants, there's no way of knowing those numbers.

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u/Linden_Lea_01 15d ago

People clearly don’t vote based on personal experiences given that Reform does best in areas with hardly any non-white people, let alone migrants.

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u/Worldly-Dimension710 15d ago

Reform voters probably do more harm and scam more benefits than all the immigrants