Migration Watch UK Press Comment on ONS Labour Market Statistics August 2015

Commenting on the figures, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK said:

The number of EU workers has now topped 2 million for the first time and over one million of these are from Eastern Europe. Clearly the government is going to have to get a grip of EU migration if it wants to bring overall numbers down.

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