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SourceNearly three quarters of Britons think there are too many immigrants in the country, a survey revealed yesterday.
The international poll, by IPSOS Mori, put the UK third highest in a league table of 23 countries according to concerns about migrant numbers.
And it showed Britain topped the table of countries according to concerns over the impact of migrants on public services.
Some 76 per cent of those questioned said immigration had put too much pressure on hospitals, transport services and schools.
The poll exposes the huge on-going scale of public worry over migration levels in recent years.
Under Labour’s open door immigration policy, the population was boosted by more than 3.2million arrivals from overseas.
Home Secretary Theresa May has made clear her determination to reduce net migration to the ‘tens of thousands’.
But the task of the coalition government in trying to get migrant numbers down to manageable levels has been made harder by a recent spike in new arrivals.
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the MigrationWatch think tank said: ‘Concern in Britain is almost the highest in the world.
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