Claim: Every five minutes, 70 children will be born in the UK, 20 to mothers not born here.
Fact-check: One born every minute? How many migrants arrive in the UK and how many children do they have? - Full Fact
Verdict: incorrect. in 2016 the equivalent of around seven children were born every five minutes, of whom around two were born to mothers not born in the uk.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2018-06-04T00:00:00