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An expert think tank has accused the government of pandering to big business rather than heeding the desires of voters in its post-Brexit immigration system, which it says has the effect of opening Britain’s borders even wider.

While debate on the UN migration pact rages worldwide, with a growing number of nations following the United States in withdrawing, the major deal has seen little discussion in the United Kingdom.

A pressure group has slammed new government housing statistics as hopelessly flawed, arguing they dramatically underestimate the rate of growth in England driven by high levels of net migration.

Reduced migrant inflow after Brexit could boost Britain’s economy by forcing businesses to improve productivity, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

New Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show 3.59 million foreign workers are employed in the UK, including 2.38 million EU migrants — whose numbers have continued rising since the Brexit vote.

Successive British governments have been accused of misleading the public on mass migration’s effect on the housing crisis, in a report revealing migrants headed 90 per cent of new households in England over the past decade.

The House of Lords wants to remove students from the migration statistics, but hundreds of thousands are settling permanently after their studies.

The Lords have been told that there is no need to guarantee employers permanent access to a large pool of low-skilled foreign labour after Brexit, as investment and higher wages can make the country “self-sufficient” in workers. “We have 1.5 million

Demands from employers to continue large-scale, low-skilled mass immigration are not reasonable, according to a report by Migration Watch UK.

Almost half of all new houses built in the UK over the next five years will go to migrants, meaning an extra home will need to be constructed every five minutes.

Mass migration from the European Union (EU) will be “inevitable”, putting a huge strain on public services, if the government stays in the Single Market after Brexit, a report has warned.

Chancellor George Osborne has unwittingly admitted that the government will miss its immigration targets by a significant margin. The UK Treasury released figures today suggesting that each British household would be £4,300 “worse off” if Britain leaves the European Union

The number of Romanians given the right to enter the UK job market shot up by over 200 per cent in the year since entry restrictions on them were lifted. The number of Bulgarians granted the same right also rose