British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has made an attempt to calm tensions over the number of migrants, employed in the country, pledging more jobs for British workers.

"If you look at the jobs situation as a whole, there are 600,000 vacancies in the economy," he told GMTV.

"I am really keen to get British people to take up these vacancies.

"You can get to a situation where British people who want jobs get a chance to get those jobs."

Brown stressed that the government has retained curbs on migrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania and planned a new points-based system for migrants from outside the EU.

He said migrants had brought valuable skills to the UK - but he wanted to do more to help unemployed people and those on incapacity benefit in the UK to find work.

The British government said on Tuesday it would extend restrictions on Bulgarians and Romanians until at least the end of 2008 under pressure over the number of foreign workers coming into the country.

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