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Seven million immigrants are actually working in Britain, filling one in each 5 jobs, figures present.

Since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, 1.4 million non-EU staff arrived in Britain whereas the variety of EU-born staff fell by 230,000 to 2.2 million, in accordance with figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Estimates from the ONS final yr urged that whole web migration was 685,000, considerably larger than pre-pandemic ranges of 200,000 to 300,000.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to deliver down web migration and scale back Britain’s reliance on abroad staff.

The Labour Government’s Skills England physique has been tasked with serving to UK areas enhance workforce expertise to scale back the nation’s reliance on staff from abroad.

Alp Mehment of Migration Watch instructed The Sun jobs within the UK are nonetheless open to overseas staff and Labour will not do something about it.

Robert Bates from the Centre for Migration Control instructed the identical publication it’s too simple for companies to shirk their obligations to Brits and easily rent low-cost labour from abroad.

He warned this would want to alter if the nation needs to construct an economic system primarily based on excessive expertise and excessive wages.

The Migration Observatory on the University of Oxford expects web migration to fall from this yr onwards whatever the change in authorities and any coverage adjustments.

Experts on the physique say it’s because former worldwide college students are emigrating after a growth in arrivals between 2021 and 2023.

Visa restrictions launched by the Conservative authorities are additionally more likely to scale back immigration this yr, in accordance with The Migration Observatory.

Figures revealed after former prime minister Rishi Sunak referred to as the final election confirmed a web determine of 685,000 arrived in Britain in 2023 down from a report of 764,000 the yr earlier than.

This was thrice the determine in 2019 and an enormous rise in comparison with 2012 when web migration was a bit beneath 200,000.

Under Labour’s plans, sectors equivalent to healthcare and development should devise workforce plans to scale back reliance on abroad staff.

Employers which might be discovered to have damaged employment legislation may also be banned from hiring staff from overseas. The Government has additionally pledged to finish the exploitation of abroad staff.