More than a third of all migrants living in Britain are now white Europeans - including over half a million Poles - a new government study has revealed. Overall, there are 7.5 million people living in England and Wales who were born outside the UK - making up some 13 per cent of the population. But where previously Britain's migrant population was dominated by ethnic minorities from Commonwealth countries - mainly the Caribbean, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India - almost a third are now registered 'white' and moved to the UK from the continent.
Before 1981, 485,000 migrants moved to the UK from the Indian sub-continent - more than twice the number of Europeans. Between 1981 and 2000, the numbers arriving from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh had fallen slightly to 420,000 - but were still more than those moving to the UK from the continent. However, in the years after 2001 the number of migrants from the EU rocketed. Overall, around 1.5million migrants moved to the UK from Europe - compared to just 600,000 from south Asia.
-MailOnline
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