It's official. More than half of all new jobs created in Britain during the last decade have been snapped up by immigrants.
According to figures released on Tuesday, out of 2.1 million jobs created under the Labour Party government since 1997, 52 per cent went to 1.1 million migrant workers, the media reported in London on Wednesday.
The data came just days after a government study had revealed that "migrant workers are both higher paid and more reliable than their British counterparts, and contributed six billion pounds to economic growth last year".
"The research showed that in the long run, our country and exchequer are better off with immigration rather than without it," British Immigration Minister Liam Byrne was quoted as saying.
According to the findings, migrants had earned 424 pounds a week on an average, compared with 395
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