A study claiming there's 'probably' a link between rising levels of youth unemployment in Britain and an increase in migration from eastern Europe is flawed, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research.

Migrationwatch UK says in the third quarter of last year there were 600-thousand more workers in the UK from countries like Poland, Hungary and Latvia than in 2004, when they joined the EU - while over the same period, youth unemployment here rose by almost 450-thousand.

But the IPPR say it began rising before the influx of Eastern European workers.