Four in five jobs created over the past decade have been taken by migrants.
Of the 3.7million new roles recorded under the PAYE system since 2014, just 734,000 were taken by UK nationals, a think-tank has found.
EU citizens accounted for 408,000 jobs, while the vast majority – 2.5million – went to migrants from the rest of the world, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) said, with most of the surge coming since the pandemic.
The think-tank warned that while employers gained ‘unprecedented access to overseas labour’, taxpayers have been forced to absorb the cost of millions of Britons being ‘written off’ and
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