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Tuesday's front page. Nice picture of
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somebody here not preparing to go on
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holiday, but preparing to leave and
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never come back, or at least not come
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back for a few years. The official
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statistics body of the UK had thought
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Brits left the UK in 2024. They've had a
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little recalculation and discovered that
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in fact it was more than a quarter of a
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million. About 257,000
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people left the UK last year. Now, we
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don't yet know the full details as to
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where they've all gone and who they all
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were and why they all left, but we have
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been seeing and hearing and sensing for
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a long time now that people are leaving
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this country. Not just the non-doms uh
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who have just all gone off to Milan and
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Switzerland, but the demographic that I
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was much more worried about which uh
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people in their 20s, 30s perhaps before
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they have family roots to put down in
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this country think what I'm doing at the
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moment the juice isn't worth the
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squeeze. I'm going to go and try my luck
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for a few years elsewhere. Maybe Dubai,
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maybe Portugal. I think that's a real
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challenge for this country. I think it's
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an understandable mindset. I think Jeff
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Bezos once said that if the data and the
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anecdotes telling you two different
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things, it's probably the data that's
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wrong. We heard a lot of anecdotes about
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people leaving this country and why they
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were choosing to do so. And now we know
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that the data was wrong. Uh has been
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corrected. Quarter of a million people
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left the UK last year. Certainly
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something to think about.
