"Why is this front page news and why does it even matter? I was born overseas. One of our recent Prime Ministers was also. So what?”

The Daily Mail has been slammed for its latest front page, with some accusing it of not so subtle ‘racial dog whistling’ after it decided to focus on how many Brits are born overseas with the headline: “One in six of us born overseas’. It went on to add below: Census reveals dramatic social shift in just a decade’.

Some questioned why such a stat matters, while others criticised the paper for its choice of story. Lester Holloway, the editor of VoiceNews tweeted: “Daily Mail presses the G-spot of Race Replacement Theory nutcases.”

One social media user wrote: “Headlines like this would surely not radicalise a certain demographic to do something extreme.”

Another said: “Why is this front page news and why does it even matter? I was born overseas. One of our recent Prime Ministers was also. So what?”

Dan Snow wrote in response to the headline about how many of us are born overseas with the words: “Like my dad, the King’s dad, the Prime Minister’s dad, the England football captain’s dad and Churchill’s mum.”

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