Name: The Sun 2011-07-18 13:09
A STAGGERING 81 per cent of new jobs across Britain are going to foreigners, shock figures revealed yesterday.
Employment has surged to a two-year high in a huge boost to the Chancellor.
But of 411,000 net posts created in the year to April, 334,000 went to people born outside the UK. Some 129,000 have gone to east Europeans.
Experts said the figures show the huge challenge facing the Government. MigrationWatchUK chairman Sir Andrew Green called it proof Brits are being "undercut" by cheap foreign labour.
He told The Sun: "These are striking figures. The immigration lobby can no longer pretend immigration has very little effect on British workers' job prospects."
The Sun revealed two months ago that Tesco was advertising in Slovakia for store managers to work in Britain, while manufacturing giant Doosan flew in Filipino welders to work on a power station.
A Department of Work and Pensions spokeswoman said ministers were reforming the system to try and encourage Brits off benefits and into work.
Yesterday's figures showed that overall, unemployment fell by 36,000 to 2.46million in the three months to the end of March.
Youth jobless fell 30,000 to 936,000.
The number of women on jobseekers allowance hit a near 15-year high.
Ministers put this down to mums coming off income support back into the job market.
Overall employment reached 29.24 million, the highest since January 2009.
Employment minister Chris Grayling said: "We have a long way to go."
CBI president Helen Alexander last night said the Government still had "masses to do" on the economy.
GREECE plans to "redouble" efforts to slash debts. Experts fear the nation is bust and may default on debts despite a £95billion bailout last year, triggering a new Europe-wide crisis.
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Employment has surged to a two-year high in a huge boost to the Chancellor.
But of 411,000 net posts created in the year to April, 334,000 went to people born outside the UK. Some 129,000 have gone to east Europeans.
Experts said the figures show the huge challenge facing the Government. MigrationWatchUK chairman Sir Andrew Green called it proof Brits are being "undercut" by cheap foreign labour.
He told The Sun: "These are striking figures. The immigration lobby can no longer pretend immigration has very little effect on British workers' job prospects."
The Sun revealed two months ago that Tesco was advertising in Slovakia for store managers to work in Britain, while manufacturing giant Doosan flew in Filipino welders to work on a power station.
A Department of Work and Pensions spokeswoman said ministers were reforming the system to try and encourage Brits off benefits and into work.
Yesterday's figures showed that overall, unemployment fell by 36,000 to 2.46million in the three months to the end of March.
Youth jobless fell 30,000 to 936,000.
The number of women on jobseekers allowance hit a near 15-year high.
Ministers put this down to mums coming off income support back into the job market.
Overall employment reached 29.24 million, the highest since January 2009.
Employment minister Chris Grayling said: "We have a long way to go."
CBI president Helen Alexander last night said the Government still had "masses to do" on the economy.
GREECE plans to "redouble" efforts to slash debts. Experts fear the nation is bust and may default on debts despite a £95billion bailout last year, triggering a new Europe-wide crisis.
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