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This is how mass migration will change Britain beyond recognition

Britain will be unrecognisable by the end of this century. Unless things change, and change fast, the population of the UK will be permanently transformed by mass immigration. White Britons will become a minority by the year 2063. The foreign-born and their immediate descendants will become a majority by 2079. And nearly one in four people in the UK will be following Islam by the year 2100; this figure would rise to around one in three among under-40s. Many people struggle to make sense of the pace and scale of these changes. They ask how a nation can be transformed this fast without the consent of the governed. But, last week, brand new data from the Office for National Statistics has made it abundantly clear that these trends are already well underway. The findings are indeed shocking: more than one in three babies that were born in England and Wales last year have mothers who were not born in the UK; this rises to more than 40 per cent for babies in England, a record high and up by nearly 10-points in less than a decade. London, obviously, is at the forefront of these dramatic shifts. All six areas where 80 per cent or more of babies have at least one foreign-born parent are in the capital, with the City of London, Brent, Newham, Harrow, Ealing, and Westminster experiencing the most profound changes. But such is the legacy of mass immigration, since it began under New Labour and was then mainstreamed by the Tories, that lots of areas outside London are now also witnessing similar changes. If you exclude London, for instance, the one place in the country that has the highest share of babies who have at least one foreign-born parent is Luton: the figure there is an astonishing 79 per cent.