Surging migration fuels fastest population rise in more than 50 YEARS – sparking calls for tougher measures

BALLOONING migration has fuelled the fastest emergence successful Britain’s colonisation for much than 5 decades.

Total UK residents deed 68,265,200 successful June past twelvemonth aft an other 662,400 radical were absorbed successful the erstwhile 12 months.

It marks a population increase of 0.97 per cent - and the biggest since comparable records began successful 1971.

Runaway nett migration drove the colonisation hike wholly due to the fact that the fig of deaths outnumbered births for the archetypal time.

The Office for National Statistics figures past nighttime sparked caller calls for tougher borderline controls.

Tory enactment contender Robert Jenrick told The Sun: “These numbers are unsustainable and putting tremendous strain connected nationalist services, lodging and communities. 

“It shows wherefore we urgently request an yearly headdress connected nett migration to get them nether power erstwhile and for all.”

Reform UK brag Nigel Farage added: “The prime of beingness is declining for each of america due to the fact that of the colonisation crisis.”

In the twelvemonth to this June abstracted figures amusement a whopping 1.16million visas were dished retired either for work, survey oregon to unrecorded with family.

It comes aft a bundle of migration curbs implemented by the past Tory government, chiefly to halt radical bringing dependents.

Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to bring nett migration down by stopping bosses hiring inexpensive workers from abroad.

The PM’s spokesperson said: “The PM and the Home Secretary person been wide that wide nett migration does request to travel down, and we should extremity the concern wherever ineligible migration is utilized arsenic an alternate to tackling accomplishment shortages successful the UK.”