UK residents made 5.79m visits abroad, also a 1% rise compared with July 2015.
The biggest rise compared to five years ago is for the Lib Dems with curious voters driving a 250% boost.
The month's traffic figures showed a 5.1% rise compared to a year ago, with premium traffic up by 8%.
But that was a small rise compared with a near-sixfold increase in the value of trading in Stockholm.
That rise, compared with 1.8percentt in August, most likely reflected the surging cost of crude oil, which pushes up gasoline and energy prices.
In the first six months of this year the Mexican refugee agency, Comar, received 3,486 asylum applications – a 150% rise compared to same period in 2015.
Mirror Group Digital's website network, which include 3am and MirrorFootball, grew to 26.27 million monthly browsers – a 4.46% rise compared to April.
For its first quarter, Microsoft reported net income of $4.29 billion, or 45 cents a share, a 23percentt rise compared with a year earlier.
The Office for National Statistics said the chancellor's borrowing in the current financial year to date was £17.9bn, a £0.2bn rise compared with 2015.
On equal pay, almost half (48%) of women questioned said they lacked confidence to ask for a pay rise, compared with less than one-third (31%) of men.
On business volumes, just 23 per cent reported a rise, compared with a 41 per cent fall, a negative balance of 18 per cent.
