UK government will not meet immigration target says think tank
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14:08 10/01/2013
The UK government will not meet its target of reducing net immigration to below 100,000 annually, according to a respected think tank. A report issued by the Institute for Public Policy Research (...
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11:32 19/12/2012
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9:51 04/12/2012
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11:07 28/11/2012
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16:30 21/11/2012
A leading academic has written a letter to the prestigious Financial Times newspaper complaining that the UK government's immigration policy is damaging the higher education sector. Professor James...