Expert warns UK will need 15 Birminghams to house migrants if trend continues

Dr Rakib Ehsan warned 15 cities the size of Birmingham would beryllium required by 2046 (Image: GETTY)

Britain volition request to physique different 15 cities the size of Birmingham by 2046 to accommodate soaring numbers of migrants if existent trends continue, an world has warned.

Dr Rakib Ehsan, who has voiced predominant interest implicit the emergence of individuality authorities and the limitations of multiculturalism, was commenting successful the aftermath of the latest figures published by the Office for National Statistics earlier this week.

These enactment net migration to the UK astatine a provisional full of 728,000 successful the twelvemonth to June 2024, down 20% from a revised grounds of 906,000 successful the twelvemonth to June 2023.

Dr Ehsan, whose book, Beyond Grievance: What the Left Gets Wrong About Ethnic Minorities, was published successful 2022, said the latest numbers were "by anyone’s reckoning staggering".

A "huge question mark" present stood implicit the 728,000 figure, helium suggested, adding: "I fishy that this, too, volition beryllium to beryllium yet different gross underestimate, and that Britain's migration situation - its gaping unfastened borderline and the attendant societal and economical costs that travel with it - volition lone worsen.

A tiny vessel crossing the English Channel (Image: Getty)

The 906,000 figure, astir equivalent to importing 3 cities the size of Nottingham, was "terrifying" successful itself, Dr Ehsan said.

Under the past Tory government, nett migration had risen exponentially, from 184,000 to "these latest gargantuan figures", helium pointed out.

Writing successful the Daily Mail, Dr Ehsan continued: "And that is earlier you origin successful ongoing immigration. If contiguous trends continue, Migration Watch UK – different apolitical think-tank that has ever proved reliable successful its forecasting – calculates that the UK colonisation volition emergence by astatine slightest 16 million, reaching up to 87 cardinal radical by 2046.

Referring to the UK’s biggest 2nd city, colonisation 1.15 cardinal successful the 2021 census, helium said: "That would necessitate gathering nary less than 15 caller cities the size of Birmingham, a request that each the brownfield sites successful the state would ne'er travel adjacent to meeting."

The latest fig - 906,000 - is astir triple the colonisation of Nottingham (Image: Getty)

Consequently, "vast swathes" of England, particularly the south, would request to beryllium "concreted over" to physique lodging for the caller arrivals, who would besides necessitate doctor's surgeries, schools, hospitals and different infrastructure.

There was besides different problem, successful that whereas earlier Brexit, EU migrants from Poland and different European countries had dominated, present non-EU migrants "swelled the ranks", Dr Ehsan emphasised.

In provisional figures for the twelvemonth ending June 2024, 1 cardinal of the 1.2 cardinal arrivals to the UK came from countries specified arsenic India, Nigeria, Pakistan and China.

A full of 55% of survey visas fixed to Nigerian nationals were for their dependants and family, a information Dr Ehsan said was "bizarre".

He asked: "Why does idiosyncratic coming to assemblage successful Britain request to bring their mum on with them – and what imaginable payment volition she connection to the UK economy?

"The answer, precise likely, is none.”

Dr Ehsan, who regular appears connected GB News and Sky News, warned: "The aboriginal of Britain rests not connected millions of migrants arriving connected our shores each year, but connected a caller economic, societal and governmental settlement.

"We indispensable extremity our addiction to inexpensive overseas labour, and rehabilitate our state by investing successful our ain citizens astatine last."