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How many jobs went to migrants?

The Centre for Social Justice report states that 3.7 million new jobs were created in Britain between 2014 and the end of last year. British nationals took 734,000 of these, while non-EU nationals filled 2.5 million, meaning they took a significant majority of the new positions.

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