The number of EU workers in the UK grew by almost 90,000 in the three months leading up to the EU referendum, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Most of the workers who came to the UK arrived from Eastern Europe. The number of workers from Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia reached a record 1,007,000 in the second quarter of the year – up 44,000 on the previous quarter.