Only one in five staff jobs created over the past decade has gone to a Brit, it has been revealed.
A new report has found that of the 3.7million extra payrolled roles since 2014, just 734,000 were taken by UK nationals.
EU citizens accounted for 408,000 while the vast majority – 2.5million positions – went to migrants from the rest of the world, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) said.
The think-tank’s analysis showed that most of the rise took place after the pandemic, with the non-EU employment counts up by 2.1m since 2020.
It warned that while employers have gained ‘unprecedented access to overseas
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