Net migration to Britain fell to its lowest level in more than two-and-a-half-years in 2016, official data showed on Thursday, driven in part by an increase in the number of European Union citizens leaving the country.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said net migration to Britain in the year to December 2016 was 248,000, down 84,000 on the previous year and the lowest estimated level since the year to March 2014.
