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Anxiety is killing parenthood

7 April 2022

10:40 PM

7 April 2022

10:40 PM

Britain is on a slow descent to oblivion. Scotland is even closer to the abyss, with a birth rate of just 1.29, well below the UK’s sub-replacement level of 1.65. It turns out the answer to the West Lothian question is that West Lothian will disappear.

Doomsday demography should matter, but Whitehall is in no way prepared to deal with it.

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