Claim: There are 2 million illegal immigrants in the UK.
Fact-check: There almost certainly aren't as many as two million unauthorised immigrants in the UK - Full Fact
Verdict: this is much higher than even the upper end of an estimate of how many people were in the uk in 2017 without a permit to be there.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Grace Rahman
Date published: 2020-10-14T00:00:00