United Kingdom: Nearly all of the employment growth between 2001 and 2008 attributable to migrant workers

A study by Migrationwatch UK found that, although the number of people working in the UK rose by 1.34 million from 2001 to 2008, the number of British-born workers in employment fell by 62,000 over that same period. The number of migrant workers from Eastern Europe increased by half a million. These figures are being used to argue that Prime Minister Gordon Brown's policy of "British jobs for British workers" is failing to meet its goals.

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