The share of babies born to migrant parents reached 40pc for the first time last year, new figures show.
Latest Office for National Statistics figures showed the number of newborns with at least one parent born abroad had risen from 39.5pc in 2024 to a record high of 40.2pc last year. It was 30.1pc in 2008.
That equates to more than 235,000 of the 585,396 births last year.
