The State of Working Britain Blog:
Measure for Measure: Has the Government Already Met its Net Immigration Target Without Noticing?
24 January 2019
It may well be that we no longer care about estimating the number of immigrants in the UK (though this is doubtful). Government policy (at the moment) still appears to be based around the notion that getting net immigration down below 100,000 is the thing to do. As such it needs a measure of how well it is doing on this front.