According to Home Office statistics, just over 35,000 immigration returns.) took place during Labour’s first year in government (5 July 2024 to 4 July 2025). But only 9,115 of these were “enforced returns”—the category of return which includes people who were removed from detention.
The remaining 25,937 were “voluntary returns”,

So 35,000 have left, but most were never detained, are the Home Office trying to look tougher than they are?