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Are British workers too lazy to do the jobs immigrants do?

Lord Mandelson says immigrants simply take jobs Britons are "unwilling" to take. Graham Stewart takes your calls.

Lord Mandelson says immigrants from Eastern Europe are simply taking jobs that Britons are "unwilling" or unable to take. He told MPs on the European scrutiny committee that there was "no statistically significant impact" on wages and there were still about 500,000 unfilled jobs.

And, with hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants thought to be living in Britain, should we be trying to expel them, or as London Mayor Boris Johnson suggests, granting some of them the right to stay and the chance to become full members of society?

Graham Stewart takes your calls, texts and emails.

55 minutes

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Tue 10 Mar 2009 09:05

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  • Tue 10 Mar 2009 09:05