LOW-SKILLED workers from Eastern Europe are heading to the UK in their droves to look for work as net migration hit its highest level in more than five years, figures showed revealed.

The number of low-skilled workers, such as some of those in the retail, hospitality and catering sectors, coming from outside the UK has more than doubled in the last nine years.

The rise was driven by a 60-fold increase in those coming from the eight Eastern European countries that were the latest to join the European Union, all of whom are outside the control of the Government’s new immigration cap.

Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands by 2015, but the figure continued to rise last year as it hit 242,000.