article_snippet: In controversial remarks, Lord Bates said that a quarter of children born in the UK each year now had a mother who was herself from overseas.
article_snippet: In 2001, prior to Labour presiding over a decade of wide-scale immigration, only 16 per cent of UK births were to foreign mothers.
article_snippet: A quarter of children born in the UK each year now had a mother who was herself from overseas .
article_snippet: Not including children born in the UK meant net migration was recorded at a much lower 2.5million.
highlights_snippet: In 2001 only 16 per cent of births in Britain were to foreign mothers .
  
highlights_snippet: Now a quarter of children born in the UK have a mother from overseas .