Surge of foreign workers raises UK migration debate
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16:39 23/08/2006
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13:58 20/10/2005
New figures show that about 111,000 workers came to the UK from the new EU countries in the past year. That figure is up from 20,000, the number that arrived before EU enlargement in May 2004. The...
