Foreign workers take yet more UK jobs as number of Britons in work plunges and youth unemployment hits one million

Around 500 foreigners landed a job in Britain every day over the past year while the number of UK-born workers plunged.

Official figures yesterday painted a shockingly bleak picture of a jobs market in crisis as unemployment hit a 17-year high.

The Office for National Statistics said the number of British-born workers has crashed by 311,000 in a year, equal to more than 850 a day. But in the same period, the number of foreign-born employees jumped by 181,000 – or 495 a day.    Read More