A GB News audience member told presenter Patrick Christys she struggles to sleep at night over fears about Britain's demographic future, as a new report suggests white British people will become a minority by 2063.
The woman, who described herself as a mother of a nearly four-year-old living in a "quintessential British countryside area", said: "Coming into London today and seeing the small boats on the telly, it is keeping me awake at night. I am losing sleep at night. What is the country going to be like when my son grows up?"
Her comments came in response to research by Professor Matt Goodwin of the University of Buckingham, which claims white British people will fall from 73 per cent of the population today to below 50 per cent by 2063.
The analysis, which Professor Goodwin says uses migration, birth and death rates to project demographic changes through the 21st century, forecasts that white British people will make up just 57 per cent of the population by 2050.
The audience member told Patrick Christys about her concerns
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By the end of the century, the proportion could fall to just 22.7 per cent, according to the report from the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham.
The research also predicts the Muslim population will rise from approximately seven per cent today to 19.2 per cent by 2100.
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Professor Goodwin stated: "What these projections show is that the UK is currently on course to experience enormous and historically unprecedented changes in the composition of its population."
Recent demographic shifts have already occurred faster than predicted in major UK cities. London became minority white British decades earlier than expected, with the proportion falling from 60 per cent in 2001 to 37 per cent by 2021.
The audience member admitted she struggles to sleep as a result of her concerns
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Birmingham and Leicester have also become "majority minority" cities, with white British residents falling below half by the last census.
Professor Eric Kaufmann, who leads the Centre for Heterodox Social Science, previously noted the "dramatic outflow" of white British residents from diverse areas, stating: "In Barking and Dagenham, to take an extreme example, a third of the white British population departed between 2001 and 2011."
Previous predictions have consistently underestimated the pace of change, with timelines shortening as migration levels exceeded expectations.
Professor Goodwin warned the demographic changes could provoke "anxiety, concern and political opposition" among those who want to preserve the UK's "symbols, traditions, culture and ways of life".
GB News's Matt Goodwin led the research
GB NEWSHe said: "By the end of the century, most of the people on these islands will not be able to trace their roots in this country back more than one or two generations."
The GB News audience member expressed specific fears about recent arrivals, stating: "It's giving me nightmares. I'm scared to get on the tube. The people coming over on these boats, where are the women and children? It's all fighting age men."
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