Read It And Weep For Our Overcrowded Islands.

The Times notes that ONS figures showed that the non UK-born population rose from 5.2 million in 2004 to 7.5 million in 2011, following the expansion of the EU to include former Soviet bloc states. The estimated UK population born in the eight states, including Poland and the Czech Republic, rose from 167,000 to 689,000 between 2004 and 2008.Times Open Europe research: Free Movement