Migrants 'have cost UK £140bn'

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%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Immigrants have cost UK taxpayers more than £22 million a day for 17 years, a report has claimed.

Migration Watch UK research claims that the public purse was £140 billion worse off between 1995 and 2011 as a result of people moving to Britain.

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