UK: Internal Migration at the National Scale

• UK 'North-South' population drift accelerated during the 1980s.
• Deindustrialisation of northern cities e.g Liverpool and Sheffield triggered exodus of many young people towards the UK's economic core of London and the South East.
• Since the period of deindustrialisation in the 1980s, this trend of migration has continued.
• 2019: London's population reached a record high of 9 million.
• London house prices have tripled in value since 1995 as a result of high demand from incomers and investors.
• Since 1945, gap between house prices in northern and southern England has grown and lessened several times.
• Rising cost of doing business in London have sometimes triggered out-migration of people and businesses.
• Cardiff and Bristol offer attractive alternative to London.
• The BBC relocated to Manchester in 2011.
• London's global hub status means the UK's core-periphery imbalance is likely to persist.