The number of foreign offenders still living in Britain despite being earmarked for deportation has surged nearly 10 per cent to a record high since Labour came to power, according to a study.
Just over 18,000 foreign offenders subject to deportation were living freely within the community after serving their sentence when Labour won the election in July 2024.
But this surged to nearly 20,000 during the first quarter of this year, according to the Migration Observatory findings.
It dwarfs the number of foreign national offenders (FNOs) being returned to their country of origin, which by comparison was just 5,858 in the year
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