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UK Immigration Minister Phil Woolas may tighten the immigration points system in order to limit the number of skilled foreign workers entering the UK before the summer, when 400,000 students will be graduating from university. As reported in the Daily Mail, Woolas stated: “The points-based system that has been introduced allows us to toughen the criteria, and clearly in the economic situation that is something it is beholden on us to do.” The plan, dubbed “British jobs for British graduates,” has been under debate for several weeks, and it now goes to Cabinet for discussion.