British lawmakers to call for UK immigration cap

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)