Douglas Murray: 'When it comes to immigration, speed, culture and numbers are everything'

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- According to a census, the share of “whites” in England and Wales has been falling sharply for twenty years.

Likewise, Christians now make up less than 50% of the country, while Muslims are growing rapidly.

Is this a change in the history of Great Britain?

Douglas Murray.

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It is a change, but it is part of an already old trajectory.

In the 1990s the average net migration to the UK was a few tens of thousands a year.

In the years following Labor's victory in power in 1997, that figure rose to hundreds of thousands a year.

Last year it reached the record figure of half a million.

Of course, these phenomena have an effect and over time the population changes.

I described this after the last census was published ten years ago and wrote about the wider effects for Britain and our entire continent in

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