About: Immigration under New Labour from 1997 - 2010

Immigration under New Labour from 1997 to 2010 was the immigration policy under the government of Tony Blair and then subsequently the continuation of large scale immigration under Gordon Brown. Under New Labour net migration to the United Kingdom quadrupled from around 50,000 every year before 1997 to around 200,000 averaging out over 1997 to 2010. It continued at this large scale pace for the remainder of the Tony Blair's and Gordon Brown's time as Prime Minister and large scale migration has subsequently been continued by governments after. Immigration from non-EU countries and the European Union itself substantially rose and has been described as one of the largest mass population movements to the country since the Second World War.