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The truth about migration

It is no real surprise that economic migration is causing pressure on services in almost every UK region. But some of the coverage of the report from the Home Office's Migration Impacts Forum has been misleading. Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said the report showed the "huge impact" of migration has "little economic justification" and called for a cut in the number of migrants from non-EU countries. In fact, the considered and balanced report does not paint a picture of collapsing public services under catastrophic strain.

It is no real surprise that economic migration is causing pressure on services in almost every UK region. But some of the coverage of the report from the Home Office's Migration Impacts Forum has been misleading.