Senior cabinet minister says UK will miss 100,000 immigration target
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12:02 10/01/2014
Vince Cable, the UK's Business Secretary, has told the BBC that the immigration target set by UK Prime Minister David Cameron is 'arbitrary' and 'impractical'. He added that the government 'almost...
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Poll shows UK negative about EU immigration
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An opinion poll has showed that people in the UK are much more likely to view membership of the EU negatively than people in France, Germany or Poland. 26% of British people are broadly in favour of...
Immigration to grow UK population by 6m in next 25 years
16:51 12/11/2013
The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) says that the population of the UK is set to grow by nearly 10m over the next 25 years and calculates that 5.8m of that rise will be caused directly or...
