These findings revive concerns about the size of immigration into the united kingdom before the pandemic, which fanned support for Britain’s decision to go away the ecu Union Britain’s foreign-born population has doubled to 9 million people within the last decade, stirring a debate about immigration and social cohesion, a search group’s analysis shows.
Around half births in major U.K. cities in 2019 came from a mother born outside the U.K., consistent with a reading of official government data by the lobby Migration Watch U.K. Ethnic minorities are now a majority in cities including London, Slough, Leicester and Luton.
These findings revive concerns about the size of immigration into the U.K. before the pandemic, which fanned support for Britain’s decision to go away the ecu Union and drew voters to the Conservative Party under Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
“The rapidly changing nature of our towns and cities poses serious risks for integration and can be a true concern to several during this country,” said Migration Watch U.K. Chairman Alp Mehmet, calling for a curb on immigration.
The U.K.’s relatively large foreign-born population may be a legacy of Labour and Conservative governments opening the door to immigrants within the last 20 years , a policy aimed toward ensuring the economy had enough workers to grow without boosting wages and inflation.
Now with the pandemic and Brexit making it harder to cross borders, both wages and consumer prices are on the increase . Groups like British Meat Processors Association are calling on the govt to relax policy to enable labor from abroad filling domestic shortages.
