'Mass migration is future unless our falling birth rate is reversed'

TORY MP Miriam Cates has warned the UK could be heading for "destabilising mass immigration" unless the decline of fertility rates is reversed.

- Steph Spyro

Her concerns came as net migration hit record levels last year, rising to 606,000.

Ms Cates told the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in London yesterday: "Unless fertility rate decline is reversed, we are heading for a future of certain economic stagnation or destabilising mass immigration. Or both.

"We can feel the social fabric fraying. At every level of society - families, neighbourhood, the nation, the shared understanding of identity and responsibility - is under strain. Nowhere is this strain more evident than in the erosion of family life."