UK Population Booming with Record Mass Migration.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: The United Kingdom experienced significant population growth of over three-quarters of a million people in the year to June 2024, the second-highest increase in 75 years.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The Office for National Statistics (ONS), successive Conservative (Tory) and Labour Party governments, and Reform Party leader Nigel Farage.

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📍WHEN & WHERE: The year leading up to June 2024, across the United Kingdom.

💬KEY QUOTE: “The Labour government are continuing the Boriswave and our lives are all getting poorer because of it. Only Reform will control our borders.” – Nigel Farage

🎯IMPACT: The British population reached 69.3 million, with net immigration accounting for 98 percent of the growth.

The United Kingdom‘s population grew by more than three-quarters of a million people in the year leading up to June 2024, marking the second-largest annual increase since the late 1940s. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), net immigration was the primary contributor, accounting for 98 percent of this growth.

Nigel Henretty from the ONS highlighted, “The UK population has increased each year since mid-1982. Net international migration continues to be the main driver of this growth, continuing the long-term trend seen since the turn of the century.”

In mid-2024, Britain’s population was estimated at 69.3 million, up from 68.5 million in mid-2023. The number of people immigrating to the country was estimated at 1,235,254, with 496,536 people emigrating, resulting in a net migration figure of 738,718. This was the largest factor in the overall population growth.

“The rate of population increase has been higher in recent years, and the rise seen in the year to mid-2024 represents the second largest annual increase in numerical terms in over 75 years,” Henretty said.

Although births outnumbered deaths slightly, contributing 16,239 to the population increase, the total number of births was the lowest in at least 42 years.

Reform Party leader Nigel Farage criticized Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government, stating, “The Labour government are continuing the Boriswave and our lives are all getting poorer because of it. Only Reform will control our borders.”

The “Boriswave” refers to the unprecedented immigration surge engineered by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson following Brexit and the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite promising to reduce net immigration in his election platform.

The National Pulse reported on Thursday that immigration—especially among Muslims—likely accounts for a large part of a surge in belief in God(s) in the United Kingdom. August data from YouGov shows that 37 percent of Britons between the ages of 18 and 24 say they believe in God, a significant uptick from August 2021, when only 16 percent of the same demographic believed in God.

While some have interpreted the YouGov data to signal a Christian religious revival in the United Kingdom—some polling indeed shows a 56 percent increase in adult church attendance compared to 2018—a closer look at the data for demographic groups over the age of 25 shows modest declines in belief in God. When coupled with migration data, this suggests that the increase in faith is substantially driven by mass migration policies.

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