Its population shrank by 7.3 per cent, from 72,600 to around 67,300. Dr Ben Brindle of the Migration Observatory told MailOnline: 'Migration has been the main driver of UK population growth over ...

The UK population has hit 68.3million after huge net immigration sparked the biggest rise since the 1970s. Numbers went up by 1 per cent in the year to June 2023, from 67,602,800 to 68,265,200.

White British people are the minority in London and Birmingham, the UK's two largest cities, for the first time since records began, according to new census figures. The white British population of ...