POLL: Are migrants taking too many jobs? | Politics | News


An estimated 3.7million jobs, or 17% of retail roles, are held by migrants, according to an analysis by Oxford Universityโ€™s Migration Observatory.

In London, a staggering 64% of hospitality roles have been filled by migrants.

Now, Daily Express readers can decide. Are migrants taking too many jobs?

Academics from the Migration Observatory said โ€œnon-UK nationals were over-represented in administrative services, hospitality, and health and care but underrepresented in public administration and the artsโ€.

This has led to warnings โ€œjob opportunities are being denied to UK youngstersโ€.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: โ€œMass low-skill migration from the third world has been a disaster.

โ€œIt has undermined social cohesion and costs taxpayers money – as low-wage migrants consume more in public services than they pay in tax.

โ€œNow it turns out they are also keeping UK-born young people out of jobs as well. Migrants with low skills willing to work for low wages mean job opportunities are being denied to UK youngsters.

โ€œThis is compounded by the Labour Governmentโ€™s war on business, which is also restricting jobs.

โ€œWe need to end third-world immigration, slash welfare spending and use the money saved to cut taxes to create jobs.

โ€œThen our young people will have opportunities again.โ€

A staggering 957,000 people under the age of 34 are not in education, employment or training as businesses suffer under the weight of Labour’s job taxes and economic chaos triggered by the Iran war. This is predicted to rise to 1.25million within five years.

But Labourโ€™s job tsar, former health secretary Alan Milburn, warned that businesses “have been on easy street because they have been able to import migrant labour” which he described as “oven ready”.

British employers have hired 27 young workers from outside the EU for every British person taken on, according to a study by the Centre for Social Justice.

The think tank said โ€œstarter rolesโ€ typically taken up by young people entering the job market for the first time have been โ€œsimply vanishingโ€, with migrants employed instead.

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