> I’d expect a big boost in wages since they left Europe due to a loss of available employable market Despite Brexit having arguably been driven by immigration

> I’d expect a big boost in wages since they left Europe due to a loss of available employable market Despite Brexit having arguably been driven by immigration concerns, immigration to the UK has increased since that vote, and reached a record of 606k in 2022 [1]. It has been increasing since 1995, and in 2015 13.2% of the UK population was foreign-born [2] - so not counting children of immigrants. [1] Britain’s record-high immigration — in charts - https://www.ft.com/content/cb9120d8-0595-49d9-8f66-92b95acbae17 https://www.ft.com/content/cb9120d8-0595-49d9-8f66-92b95acba... - unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/Wqalm https://archive.ph/Wqalm [2] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/immigration-statistics https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/imm...