UK population growing 'so fast' Britain will have '18 new Birminghams' by 2050

Sir Keir Starmer's Government was reluctant to tackle the situation, said Mr Mehmet (Image: GETTY)

The UK colonisation jumped by its highest proportionality since the aboriginal 1970s successful June compared with a twelvemonth earlier, caller information has indicated.

And an immigration watchdog has said the figures magnitude to an “appalling” indictment of the Government’s “seeming indifference and reluctance” to look up to what amounts to an escalating crisis.

Net planetary migration was the main origin down the rise, portion deaths exceeded births for the archetypal clip – extracurricular of the Covid-19 pandemic – successful astir 5 decades.

The colonisation is estimated to person grown by 1.0% successful the twelvemonth to June 2023, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

This is the largest yearly percent summation since comparable information began successful 1971, pursuing a 0.9% emergence successful the twelvemonth to mid-2022.

Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe was besides captious of Labour and Tories (Image: Getty)

Alp Mehmet, president of Migration Watch UK and a erstwhile British Ambassador to Iceland, told Express.co.uk: “This is nary surprise.

"It was inevitable fixed nett migration of 745,000 successful 2022 and 685,000 successful 2023. Net migration of 600,000 is projected to pb to an summation successful our colonisation of 20 cardinal radical by the mid- to precocious 2040s.

A rising colonisation volition summation strain connected the NHS, warned Alp Mehmet (Image: Getty)

"The government’s seeming indifference and reluctance to look up to the contented of top interest to the nationalist is appalling.”

Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe said: "The 14 years of nonaccomplishment by the Tories and present Labour is yet being exposed.

“The colonisation detonation is having a drastic effect connected everything from lodging to the NHS.

“Only Reform UK are committed to securing our borders, freezing migration and turning backmost the boats.”

“We request to nonstop a message, large and clear, that if you travel present illegally - you volition never, ever settee successful the United Kingdom.”

Net planetary migration - the quality betwixt the fig of radical arriving successful the UK and those leaving - is presently estimated astatine 677,300 for the twelvemonth to mid-2023, and was the "main contributor to colonisation summation crossed each 4 countries of the UK", the ONS said.

Birmingham is the UK's 2nd metropolis (Image: Getty)

An estimated 16,300 much deaths than births occurred successful the UK successful the twelvemonth to mid-2023.

With the objection of the Covid-19 pandemic twelvemonth of 2020, this is the archetypal clip since the mid-1970s that determination has been a antagonistic earthy alteration successful the population, with much deaths than births.

Natural alteration was past antagonistic successful 1976 - though this was based connected year-end data, alternatively than the mid-year information utilized for colonisation estimates, the ONS added.

Professor Sarah Harper, manager of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, said the antagonistic earthy alteration is "not unexpected".

Rupert Lowe is acrophobic astir ongoing amerciable migration via tiny boats crossing the Channel (Image: Getty)

She said: "Given the existent debased commencement complaint successful the UK, and the ample post-war commencement cohorts who person enjoyed longer lives present entering aged age, the fig of deaths we expect volition summation each twelvemonth implicit clip arsenic this procreation of older adults ages and passes away."

The UK colonisation estimation for mid-2023 of astir 68.3 cardinal is up by astir 2 cardinal compared to mid-2018, erstwhile the fig was conscionable nether 66.3 million.

It is besides much than 4 cardinal higher than the fig of 64.1 cardinal a decennary earlier successful mid-2013.

All estimates are expected to beryllium revised wrong the adjacent twelvemonth arsenic caller information becomes disposable and improvements to estimates of planetary migration continue, the ONS added.

Sir Keir Starmer is determined to bring down nett migration, Downing Street said.

The Prime Minister's authoritative 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.

"And indeed, we've made announcements precocious to execute this, including the Migration Advisory Committee conducting yearly assessments to item cardinal sectors wherever labour marketplace failures person led to rocketing overseas recruitment and the information that rules astir migrant sponsorship volition beryllium toughened to guarantee employers blameworthy of flouting employment laws are banned from hiring from abroad."