The past five years have seen a big shift towards a more liberal attitude towards immigration in the UK:



The trend in this evidence matches other data asking about immigration in different ways, such as shift found by the British Election Study in views on the numbers of immigration and the Ipsos-MORI data on people’s views of the impact of immigration.

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