Remember when they said a) mass immigration was good for the economy and b) without immigrants there wouldn’t be enough workers?
Mass immigration is directly fuelling the crisis for young people trying to find work, research reveals. A staggering 27 migrants from outside the EU aged under 25 are hired for every British youngster, according to the analysis.
And while the young British workforce has grown by less than 1 per cent since 2020, the number of non-EU youth on the UK payroll has increased by 355 per cent in that time, the research from The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) found.
Reform UK’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf said last night that British workers are ‘being pushed to the back of the queue while mass immigration continues’. He added: ‘Young Brits should be first in line for jobs, training and opportunities in their own country, not forced to compete against record levels of imported labour.’
The CSJ think-tank’s research shows how young migrants are taking up roles at a much faster rate to young Britons, with them snapping up three times as many jobs as young Britons.
Between 2024 and 2025, the number of non-EU under-25s on payrolls increased by 33,200, while the number of UK-nationals of the same age fell by 32,200.
This is despite almost one million 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK currently not currently in education, employment or training (NEET).
And the research shows that migrants are mostly taking entry-level positions despite Alan Milburn saying today that the first rung of the career ladder is ‘simply out of reach’ for young Britons after he was commissioned by the Government to review soaring levels of youth unemployment in Britain.
The fact that the man speaking for the British youth is named “Zia Yusuf” is not a confidence-inspiring sign that Reform UK is the answer, though.