Miriam Cates
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GB News Presenter • Senior Fellow at Centre for Social Justice • ✍️ for Telegraph, ConHome, The Critic, UnHerd, The Express
Joined June 2023
In the past having children was an economic necessity. How else would one be cared and provided for in old age? But now that we have socialised the costs of sickness and pensions, we have broken the link between having children and personal economic security. The costs of raising.
✍️ 'Britain’s birth rate has plummeted. It is a sad truth that many couples later regret not having children' | Writes Miriam Cates.
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Great to have the opportunity to discuss Britian’s declining birth rate with the excellent @joshsimonsmp - and why politicians of all colours should be deeply concerned about the economic and social consequences of falling fertility.
With the birth rate hitting 1.4%, what should we do? Listen here 🔈👇
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“The number of children per mother has remained stable since the 1970s. What has changed dramatically is the number of women who never become mothers at all. The rate of childlessness was less than 5% in 1970; by 2020 it had reached 30%” @StephenJShaw
telegraph.co.uk
Britain’s birth rate has plummeted. It is a sad truth that many couples later regret not having children
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Latest ONS figures show Total Fertility Rates have fallen again, to a record low of 1.41 children per woman. But as @StephenJShaw shows here, the fall is not driven by shrinking family size, but by a huge rise in number of women who never become mothers.
nature.com
Scientific Reports - On a microdemographic framework for decomposing contemporary fertility dynamics
‘It is going down and down and down, with huge economic consequences.’ . Miriam Cates reacts to birth rates in England and Wales hitting a record all-time low, saying the ratio of taxpayers to those who are non-working and pensioners is now at three to one and rapidly
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It’s tempting to think of birth rate decline as a one off population ‘cull’ like after a war or pandemic. Unfortunately it is not like this at all. A TFR of 1.41 means each generation is one third smaller than the one before. So it looks like we have entered a tailspin of decline.
@miriam_cates Miriam, just saw you talking about the birth rate in the UK and the ratio of young to old. Whilst the birth rate is a problem, surely, at some time in the future, as the current generation of pensioners are replaced by generations with fewer pensioners the ratio will improve?.
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RT @LukeTryl: 👶Increasing elite/policy discourse about falling birth rates, but how worried are the public about the trend? 4 in 10 say the….
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It’s interesting to note that historians believe around 8,000 fighting aged men crossed the channel from France in 1066. Around the same number have made the same journey in July and August 2025.
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When UN’s CEDAW committee found that a lack of abortion provision in Northern Ireland breached women’s rights, UK government legislated to introduce abortion in NI. I trust we will now legislate to ban surrogacy in the UK following this latest intervention
dailymail.co.uk
According to the report , in 2023 the global surrogacy market was valued at over £11billion and is projected to reach £73.75billion by 2033.
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Seen through a purely individualistic lens, having children makes no sense…. [yet] Children aren’t a ….‘next step’ or a lifestyle enhancement. They are, quite simply, a central part of what it means to be human.”
spectator.co.uk
Don’t wait until 'life is sorted', it never is. Have children because they will shatter your self-absorption
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RT @csjthinktank: 🚨NEW: 16-24s are becoming the NEET Generation, with c1 million Not in Employment, Education or Training❌. Yet payrolled n….
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“What does correlate with exam results in every ethnicity is marriage rates. The more stable your home, the better you do. White working class children are at the bottom of the pile in marriage rates, and so too in school.“ @csjthinktank.
The statistic that explains why white working class children do so badly . ✍️ Edward Davies .
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Gonna miss my Saturday mornings with these two!.
It’s @miriam_cates’s last Saturday Morning Live as she starts hosting Britain’s Newsroom. Weekends won’t be the same without her but SML will continue with my new co-host. Stay tuned for the announcement ❤️🇬🇧
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