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Johnson piles pressure on Sunak over migration figures - as he claims Dublin 'engulfed by race riots'

Sky News Friday, 24 November 2023
Boris Johnson has heaped further pressure on Rishi Sunak over the UK's "all-time high" net migration figures, as he suggested "demographic change" had led to "race riots" in Dublin.
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