EU and immigration: The fact is, the population rose just as much between the war and the 70s. Then, we built more houses, schools, hospitals. Now we don’t

KJ, Fee and Chris decide to stop blaming everyone else...

SOURCE: House of Commons Library - A Century of Change: Trends in UK Statistics Since 1900

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