British lawmakers said Sunday they plan to demand new limits on immigration to help slow the population growth in the UK. Two ex-government ministers are scheduled to launch a Parliamentary panel on migration on Monday that will call for a new fixed limit on the number of non-European Union
citizens allowed to settle permanently in Britain.
Frank Field, a former welfare minister from the governing Labour Party, said the move follows a European Commission forecast that the UK population would rise from 61 million to 77 million within 50 years, mainly due to immigration. (Reuters)
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