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Brits filling 9 out of 10 jobs as EU nationals seeking UK work PLUMMETS
22 April 2019 | https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/la...rits-jobs-eu-nationals-work-brexit-referendum
BRITS have filled nine out of 10 new jobs created in the UK since the Brexit referendum, the Government announced.
The number of EU nationals seeking work in Britain has plummeted to fewer than 35,000 following the vote to leave the bloc in 2016.
And there are more than one million extra people in work.
In the two years before the referendum more than 410,000 EU citizens joined the workforce.
Between 2014 and 2016 EU nationals accounted for almost half the UK’s growth in employment.
PLUMMETED: The number of EU nationals seeking work in Britain has plummeted to fewer than 35,00 (Pic: GETTY)
Since then they are responsible for just 5%.
Businesses are “clearly adjusting” to lower European immigration, said Employment Minister Alok Sharma.
He claimed unemployed Brits and so-called “returners” – people who left work for childcare or health reasons who have since gone back to work – have boosted numbers.
Mr Sharma said: “It is UK workers who have filled the gaps – accounting for around nine in 10 of new people in work since 2016, compared to half of the people entering work in the two years before.”
BOOST: Employment Minister Alok Sharma said that UK workers have filled in the gaps (Pic: YouTube)
The Reading West MP claims Brexit had not “dampened the confidence of companies to invest in jobs”.
But he insisted the Government was not getting lazy.
Official statistics showed there are still 1.34million unemployed people in the UK.
Mr Sharma believes leaving the EU would allow British employers to “tap further into this huge pool of UK talent”.
He said: “When we leave the EU and end the freedom of movement of EU workers, employers should seize an opportunity.”
22 April 2019 | https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/la...rits-jobs-eu-nationals-work-brexit-referendum
BRITS have filled nine out of 10 new jobs created in the UK since the Brexit referendum, the Government announced.
The number of EU nationals seeking work in Britain has plummeted to fewer than 35,000 following the vote to leave the bloc in 2016.
And there are more than one million extra people in work.
In the two years before the referendum more than 410,000 EU citizens joined the workforce.
Between 2014 and 2016 EU nationals accounted for almost half the UK’s growth in employment.
PLUMMETED: The number of EU nationals seeking work in Britain has plummeted to fewer than 35,00 (Pic: GETTY)
Since then they are responsible for just 5%.
Businesses are “clearly adjusting” to lower European immigration, said Employment Minister Alok Sharma.
He claimed unemployed Brits and so-called “returners” – people who left work for childcare or health reasons who have since gone back to work – have boosted numbers.
Mr Sharma said: “It is UK workers who have filled the gaps – accounting for around nine in 10 of new people in work since 2016, compared to half of the people entering work in the two years before.”
BOOST: Employment Minister Alok Sharma said that UK workers have filled in the gaps (Pic: YouTube)
The Reading West MP claims Brexit had not “dampened the confidence of companies to invest in jobs”.
But he insisted the Government was not getting lazy.
Official statistics showed there are still 1.34million unemployed people in the UK.
Mr Sharma believes leaving the EU would allow British employers to “tap further into this huge pool of UK talent”.
He said: “When we leave the EU and end the freedom of movement of EU workers, employers should seize an opportunity.”
