Immigration set to increase Britain's population by a third

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The UK population will increase by a third, to 81million, in the lifetime of children born today, experts predict. They say the rise, fuelled by immigration and higher birth rates, will put enormous strain on schools, hospitals and other public services. The forecast of a 21million increase by 2074 comes from economics professor Robert Rowthorn of Cambridge University. In evidence to Parliament, he said: "Large-scale immigration will lead to a rapid and sustained growth in population, with negative economic and environmental consequences in the form of overcrowding, congestion, pressure on housing and public services and loss of environmental amenities. "It also undermines the labour market position of the most vulnerable and least skilled sections of the local workforce, including many in the ethnic minority population, who must compete against the immigrants." The professor also said there was no evidence to back the Government's ecomomic case for allowing large numbers of people to move here. Professor Rowthorn says immigration is currently adding 205,000 to the population every year. Migrants are mostly young and many start families here. These two factors alone, he said, would take the population to 77million by 2074. But even this could be an under-estimate, he believes, as fertility rates in the UK are increasing - itself partly the result of migrants having more children. Once this is factored in, the population projection reaches 81million by 2074.