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The number is double the previous target and should help ease pressure on overcrowded prisons, according to the Prime Minister.

Mr Brown told the Sun: "We are going to take a far tougher line. I want a message to go out - if you come here you work and you learn our language.

"If you commit a crime you will be deported. You play by the rules or you face the consequences."

The PM also insisted the Government would not "shirk" from building more prisons in order to tackle the space crisis.

There was widespread anger last year when it emerged that more than a thousand foreign offenders had been released without being considered for deportation.

The furore eventually claimed the job of former Home Secretary Charles Clarke.

Only around 200 of those offenders have now been ejected from the country, while some 150 are yet to be traced.

Official figures issued in May showed that 15% of the 80,000-strong prison population were foreign nationals, and keeping them locked up was costing the British taxpayer more than £398 million a year.