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BBC journalist praises Poland

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Roberto Galea 29.08.2016 08:55
In an opinion piece for Britain's The Times, prominent BBC journalist Andrew Marr has thanked Poles for being the largest minority in the UK.
Andrew Marr in 2014. Photo: Creative CommonsAndrew Marr in 2014. Photo: Creative Commons

“Thank you, Poland, for lending us your young – a migration that really works,” wrote Marr.

“It was a memorable headline on Friday: “Poles are now Britain’s biggest migrant group”. Oh good, I thought. Some may find this provocative, but if we were settling down with a piece of paper and a pencil to try to work out the ideal source of migrants to Britain, I suspect that after analysing lists of percentages, historical dates and economic equations, we would end up with the word Poland circled, underlined and followed by three exclamation marks,” the piece read.

A total of 916,000 Poles currently live in the UK, about 63,000 more than the previous year, the UK’s statistics office said last week.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Poles come ahead of the second largest minority without a British passport in the UK – Indians.

The ONS says that the number of Indians in the UK (362,000) is undervalued, however, as Indians are not allowed to have dual citizenship, and need to forfeit their Indian citizenship if they take on another nationality. (rg/pk)

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