1.5 million foreign-born workers have come to work in Britain in the past 10 years.
52% - or 1.1 million - of new jobs created had gone to migrants.
When 10 further nations, including eight former communist states, joined the EU in 2004, the UK adopted an "open door" policy – which simply allowed unfettered access to labour markets here, while failing to make any attempt to accurately count migration.
As a result when the government predicted 15,000 migrant workers would arrive each year. Instead 600,000 arrived in two years.
Speaking after the Government had to correct its own figures twice in a week, Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: "It is not good enough for the home secretary to apologise.
"The government should be open about telling the truth before they are pressurised into it.
"Immigration policy has been out of control for a decade and, if you can't count migration, you certainly can't control it."
The UK population is projected to increase by 4.4 million by 2016. This increase is equivalent to an average annual rate of growth of 0.7 per cent.If past trends continue, the population will continue to grow, reaching 71 million by 2031.
sources http://www.statistics.gov.uk/ http://news.bbc.co.uk
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