This thread ran before our government changed.
Our current immigration minister this week:

The Government blamed the previous Labour administration. Immigration Minister Damian Green said: 'These statistics show that immigration was out of control thanks to the old system.

All parties now agree that immigration was and is too high, and the losers are the low paid workers.

Yesterday Guardian.http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/26/net-migration-uk-immigration