//net immigration RISES to 244,000 a year and is still more than DOUBLE the PM's target but numbers from the EU drop below 100,000 for first time since 2013//
The word "net" understates the real problem, doesn't it, Jordy Boy?
Many of the 100,000 or so leavers will be well-off Brits going off to spend their money on the Algarve or the Costa del Sol. The gross[i number of immigrants is an extra 100,000 or so a larger than the quarter of a million net figure. Many of these extra 100,000 will never be (pardon the word) [i]net] contributors to the UK economy. And if it is true that the proportion of immigrants from EU countries is falling, then the proportion of newcomers who will never contribute is almost certainly rising.