Payroll Growth Favored Migrant Workers

A new Centre for Social Justice analysis (cited here) claims that between 2014 and 2025 Britain added about 3.7 million payroll jobs but only ~734,000 of those went to British nationals, with roughly 2.5 million taken by non‑EU nationals. The author links this distribution to rising welfare rolls and a sense among native workers that politicians prioritise imported labour over existing citizens. — If verified, this pattern reframes immigration debates from abstract flows to distributive effects on job growth, public services and political legitimacy, demanding policy answers about hiring, visas and local labour market impact.