"Where are you getting resources to accommodate more people?"
The furore about net immigration figures seems to have blurred the reality of the UK's population growth.
The UK population has grown by about 0.33% a year - a net increase of around 224,000 - 227,000 people a year - since 2020. If it were not for net immigration, the UK population would have been falling by 450,000 - 518,000 a year for the last few years.
The people coming to the UK are for the most part young, ambitious and willing to work - people without whom there would be huge shortages of workers in the construction industry, in healthcare, in factories, hospitality, agriculture and food production.
It's all very well for the Conservative and Labour governments to talk about building more hospitals, more houses, more infrastructure etc. but there is a huge shortage of skilled and unskilled labour in the UK and a demographic make-up that means that there are too few young workers coming through to replace the older workers who are retiring (or to replace the European workers who were told to leave), whether these are bricklayers to build the hospitals, or brain surgeons to work in them.
There is a shortage of housing - just as there was when I left home and left university decades ago; just as there was when I moved back to the UK 20 years ago after working abroad; and just as there is now - an ongoing situation which has never been caused by immigration alone.