The survey predicts that Britain's population by 2060 will increase by 25% from the current figure of just over 61 million to almost 77 million.

What it doesn't predict is that most of them will be trying desperately to move somewhere else.

The UK is overcrowded enough as it is, and except for the bobbly-headed noobs in the City, it's hardly the most pleasant or profitable place in Europe to make a living.

Also, it only needs a 1m rise in sea levels to put most of Lincolnshire and some of Somerset underwater.

In any case, there's a good chance we'll either have something not unlike a unified EU by then, or  smouldering craters where cities used to be.

Either way, this is another silly piece of non-journalism.