White Britons are a minority in the UK's two largest cities, new figures show

White British people are the minority in London and Birmingham, the UK's two largest cities, for the first time since records began, according to new census figures.

The white British population of London made up 37% of the capital in 2021, or 4.5 million, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS. That was down from from 45 per cent, or 4.9 million people in 2011.

Meanwhile the white British population of Birmingham made up 581,000, or 52 per cent of the city in 2011. That had dropped to 43 per cent, or 491,000 people in 2021.

ONS researches say the figures show the "increasingly multicultural society we live in".




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