Recent analysis has shown migrants account for 64% of hospitality roles in London – now Express readers debate if that’s too many
Foreign nationals are increasingly taking hospitality jobs (Image: Getty)
Some 31% of hospitality roles are now held by foreign nationals, and 34% of admin and support roles are now held by non-UK citizens.
An estimated 3.7million jobs, or 17% of retail roles, are held by migrants, according to an analysis by Oxford University’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 “non-UK nationals were over-represented in administrative services, hospitality, and health and care but underrepresented in public administration and the arts”.
This has led to warnings “job opportunities are being denied to UK youngsters”.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “Mass low-skill migration from the third world has been a disaster.
“It has undermined social cohesion and costs taxpayers money – as low-wage migrants consume more in public services than they pay in tax.
“Now 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.
“This is compounded by the Labour Government’s war on business, which is also restricting jobs.
“We need to end third-world immigration, slash welfare spending and use the money saved to cut taxes to create jobs.
“Then our young people will have opportunities again.”
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 Labour’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 “starter roles” typically taken up by young people entering the job market for the first time have been “simply vanishing”, with migrants employed instead.
