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Nowhere is this more evident than in England’s schools. The children filling classrooms in 2026 will be the voters, workers and parents of the 2060s. The latest statistics from the Department for Education show a country being remade from the bottom up. White British pupils now account for less than 60% of the state-school population, down from around 70% in the 2010s and roughly 90% in the 1990s. In about a quarter of England’s schools, White British pupils are already a minority; in 72 schools there is not a single White British pupil. In areas such as Luton, Coventry, Slough, Wolverhampton, and parts of Birmingham and Bradford, White British children account for only around 10% of nursery pupils, or even fewer.

Independent researcher Charlie Cole has analysed the figures by constituency. In East Ham, just 2% of pupils are White British. You can check the figures for your own area here.

Some politicians cast doubt on whether any of this matters. They will be long gone, so why should they care what sort of country their children and grandchildren inherit? The assumption appears to be that this is a theoretical problem that will be borne by someone else. Yet demographic change, and the policies required to manage it, are already reshaping British schools and the way they are run.

Disorder in schools is increasing. Permanent exclusions have risen by 21% since 2019, while 37% of teachers report having been physically assaulted in the past 12 months. One incident involved a heavily pregnant teacher being struck by a chair. Four other attacks on teachers resulted in amputations. Yet even as violence rises, schools face growing pressure to avoid disciplining pupils from certain backgrounds. Activists are increasingly quick to claim that minority pupils are punished simply for expressing “their cultural values and norms” in schools supposedly “rooted in white culture”.

Some argue that the breakdown in discipline can be managed, pointing to schools such as Michaela Community School in north-west London. It is diverse, disciplined, academically successful and, for many, living proof that multiculturalism works. Yet admirable and impressive though Michaela’s achievements undoubtedly are, one wonders whether Katharine Birbalsingh’s methods would be acceptable to most parents. They include mandatory vegetarian meals to accommodate a range of religious dietary requirements; pupils moving between lessons in silence under close supervision; and a ban on groups of more than four pupils gathering together in order to reduce “social exclusion“.

If this is what it takes to hold a multi-ethnic school together, perhaps the lesson is less reassuring than its advocates assume.

What would such a model look like if applied to the nation as a whole? Fragmented communities held together by an increasingly censorious, interventionist and managerial state, regulating what people eat, what they say and even with whom they may associate.

There is, however, another vision: a society built on good manners, civility, mutual respect, respect for the law, loyalty, patriotism, religious freedom and free speech. In other words, an education system and a society grounded in the ethos and values upon which Britain was built.

We, along with what is undoubtedly the vast majority of native British citizens – still by far the largest segment of the population – would much rather see a sharp reduction in both immigration, which remains at more than 800,000 a year, and net migration, which stood at over 170,000 in 2025. Both must be sharply reduced.

At the same time, we must put in place a process for the assimilation of recent and future arrivals into the society they have chosen to join. It is time to abandon the divisive doctrine of multiculturalism and challenge the absurd claim that ever-increasing diversity is our strength. It is not. It is a profound weakness that is leading to the growing fragmentation of what was once a cohesive and unified society.

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NEW POLLING FROM MIGRATION WATCH SHOWS EXTENT OF POLITICAL BETRAYAL ON DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE

The ONS figures released yesterday make for alarming reading. The usual suspects lined up to tell us not to worry: net migration fell to 171,000 in the year ending December 2025, down from 331,000 a year earlier, extending a sharp decline from a record peak of 944,000 in 2023. But this, of course, masks the real problem.

Start with the cumulative picture. Between 2019 and 2024 (the so-called “Boriswave” of arrivals under the last Conservative government), a net 2,950,000 people migrated to the UK – the equivalent of two and a half Birminghams arriving in just 5 years. Even at a reduced rate of 171,000 a year, that is still a city the size of Oxford being added to the population every twelve months; people who need homes, school places, GP appointments, and seats on trains. The tap has been turned down. It has not been turned off, and the bathtub is already overflowing.

As our followers and supporters know, Migration Watch has for years drawn attention to the public’s concert about high, uncontrolled immigration. That is why we commissioned the excellent JL Partners to poll the public, specifically about the scale of immigration and its impact. In a nationally representative poll of 1,520 adults conducted in November 2025, 61 per cent said net migration between 2019 and 2024 had been too high, including 38 per cent who chose “far too high”: the single largest response category. Just 8 per cent said it was too low. No demographic group – not graduates, not Labour voters, not a single region of the United Kingdom – produced a majority saying levels were too low.

On the question of long-term demographic change, the findings were even more striking. Forty-nine per cent of respondents viewed the projection that the White British population would fall below half of the total by the 2060s negatively, with 33 per cent selecting “very negative”, the highest single-response intensity recorded anywhere in the poll. That figure exceeded concern about housing availability, crime, and the NHS. Politicians tell us the public are relaxed about demographic change and it is a fringe concern. Far from it. It is the most deeply held concern in the entire survey.

Yet Westminster continues to treat demographic transformation as a fait accompli, a process to be managed rather than a trajectory to be changed. The current Government, like its predecessor, offers modest visa adjustments while presiding over population growth and demographic change on a scale that no post-war electorate ever voted for. The pace of change may have slowed for the time being but it has not been altered, let alone reversed. And the government simply has no appetite for doing so.

The public can see and feel the pressure on housing, on public services, and on the character of their communities. They want net migration not merely reduced but brought to genuinely sustainable levels. Politicians must listen, and make the necessary action, or the gap between governing and governed will only grow wider.

The consequences of what has already happened are baked in. The ONS’s own national population projections, published earlier this year, show the UK population heading towards 74 million by the mid-2030s, driven overwhelmingly by migration. The longer-term picture is starker still. Professor Emeritus of Demography at Oxford University, Professor David Coleman, projects that the White British share of the population will fall below 50 per cent by the early 2060s. Indeed, he has been saying this for over 15 years. Other academics have more recently come to similar conclusions. We are facing a transformation in the demographic character of our country within half a lifetime, driven almost entirely by sustained high immigration, which no one ever voted for. The British people are being betrayed.

The full Migration Watch UK polling report, Public Attitudes Towards Migration, is available at https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/public-attitudes-to-migration/

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