By Europe Correspondent Brett Mason.
A total of 147 members of the anti-European Union, anti-immigration party were elected, in the biggest win by a non-major party since the Second World War, reports Europe correspondent Brett Mason.
As many as 70 million people will call the United Kingdom home by 2027 and the race is on to build the infrastructure to cope. Multiculturalism has had a dramatic impact on London, where white British nationals now make up less than half the population.
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But in Lincolnshire, far from the heaving streets of the capital, calls to freeze migration are loud.
The historic market town of Boston in the cabbage-farming heartland of Britain is said to have one of the highest per capita immigrant populations, and is now home to the biggest eastern European community in Britain.
Once fertile ground for the Conservative Party, now the only thing growing in Boston is support for the UK Independence Party. Community tensions in this town have been tested in the past, and will likely be challenged further.
