UK population sees sharpest rise in 70 YEARS driven by immigration and higher life expectancy as London moves toward ‘Megacity’ status

‘The population of the UK has seen its sharpest annual increase in nearly 70 years driven mainly by immigration, official figures have revealed.
There were an estimated 65,648,000 people living in the country at the end of June last year.
Over the 12 months to the middle of 2016, numbers rose by 0.8 per cent or 538,000 – roughly equivalent to the size of Bradford.
London was growing twice as fast as Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland.’
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