Senior businessmen ask for more immigration to UK
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11:28 11/12/2013
Two high-profile UK businessmen have called on the government to relax immigration controls in the UK. On Sunday 8th December 2013, Sir Stuart Rose, formerly the chairman of the iconic British...
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The UK Home Affairs Select Committee has criticized the money UK Border Agency's (UKBA) has spent on the IRIS biometric scanning system saying it would have been better used to pay for more...
