Where Britain's immigrants historically come from

Immigration is dominating the news headlines at the moment but where do Britain's immigrants actually come from? Historically, Ireland was the main source of immigrants to the United Kingdom but as time went on, that has been taken over by India, Poland and Pakistan. Read more on the Independent.

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This chart shows the top five origin countries of British immigrants from 1951 to 2011.

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