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David Cameron has been strongly rebuked for making false claims about immigration.

In July, the Prime Minister wrote in a newspaper that “while most new jobs used to go to foreign workers, in the past year more than three-quarters have gone to British workers”.

Newspaper watchdog the Press Complaints Commission ruled his claim was “baseless”.

It added: “The statistics to which the PM referred had been significantly misrepresented.”

The ruling is another embarrassment for Mr Cameron, who has been repeatedly criticised by another watchdog the UK Statistics Authority for the way he uses figures for his own ends.

Earlier this year the chairman of the UK Statistics Authority Sir Andrew Dilnot stated publicly that it was inaccurate for Mr Cameron to describe an increase in employment as “new jobs”.

Sir Andrew said the two are quite different as many people hold more than one job.