Richard Tice's Sunday Sermon: We have got to talk about immigration - our British values are at risk

Welcome to Britain's favorite Sunday sermon. Well, this week we've had new data out of the Government which I think means we've got to have a proper grown up national debate about what we want in terms of the size, the shape and the very culture of the United Kingdom.

Because the Office for National Statistics has just released its latest projections, forecasts for what's going to happen to the population of the UK over the next 12 or 13 years or so.

Now currently we've got just under 70 million people living in the UK, about 68 million or so, and they're projecting over the next 12 years, it'll increase by almost seven million people.

But there's a different number that I think we need to focus on and that is that almost 14 million people will arrive in the United Kingdom from elsewhere. Now, currently in the UK, about one in seven, about 15 per cent of our population were born overseas.

But with these new projections over the next 12 years, that's likely to give or take double to about almost one in three of the population in 12 years time will have been born overseas. And that is clearly going to have serious changes in the nature of who we are, people's views, people's understanding about the British culture and so on.

I think we've got to talk about it because one of the reasons so many people want to come and live in the UK is because of who we are: Our British values, our culture, our Christian ethos, our sense of Fair play, of decency, of compassion, of respect, of transparency, of law and order.

But is that really going to stay the same if we go ahead with these population changes?

Watch Richard Tice's full Sunday Sermon for February 4 2024 above.