European ‘beaker’ immigrants took over UK

Plans by hard-line Brexiteers to curb immigration from the continent may have come 4,500 years too late, a study has revealed.

DNA analysis conducted on hundreds of prehistoric skeletons suggests that virtually no-one living in Britain today is truly British.

The original Brits – neolithic farmers responsible for building Stonehenge and other stone monuments – were almost completely displaced by immigrants from mainland Europe known as the beaker people.

Professor Ian Armit, from the University of Bradford, who took part in the research, said: “The analysis shows pretty conclusively that migration of the beaker people into Britain was more intense and on a larger scale than anyone had previously thought.

“Britain essentially has a whole new population after that period.”