By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said employers should try to hire a British worker first British firms should ‘try one of our unemployed people first’ before looking to hire foreign workers, Iain Duncan Smith has claimed. The Work and Pensions Secretary said more jobs were now going to people born in the UK after years of cheap labour from overseas undercutting Brits. However, European law makes it illegal to discriminate against workers from elsewhere in the EU. The number of UK-born workers in a job rose by 1.1 per cent in the last quarter of 2013, but among foreign-born workers it rose by 3.3 per cent to 4.45million.
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Work and Pensions Secretary urges companies to hire UK workers
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Says he was shocked by Brits undercut by migrants working on Olympics
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Defends immigration minister over attack on 'metropolitan elites'
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