‘An overcrowded England takes 90% of immigrants’

More than 90 per cent of immigrants to the UK take up residence in England, meaning increased problems with overcrowding, controversial new research has claimed.

Migration Watch UK said it had found that, of the 7.1 million foreign-born people in Britain, 6.6 million live in England – 93 per cent of the total. Scotland is home to 326,000, while there are 150,000 in Wales and 100,000 in Northern Ireland.

The anti-immigration campaign group said its research had also shown England was “one of the most crowded countries in the world”. It said figures suggested the English population was set to grow by another 4.3 million immigrants over the next 16 years.

Chairman Sir Andrew Green said: “The immigration lobby likes to talk about the UK, obscuring the fact England is six times as crowded as Scotland. Since the vast majority of immigrants come to England, it is England’s place in the league table that counts. Leaving aside city states and small islands, England lies sixth among the most crowded countries in the world.

“As people sit in traffic jams or squeeze on to morning trains it will be clearly ridiculous to claim their eyes are deceiving them and there is no problem.”