Nearly one million young Brits have been left idle while the number of non-EU workers has soared by 315 per cent, a new study has found.
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) said under-25s were being 'squeezed out of the job market' by a combination of mass migration, rising payroll taxes and surging benefit awards.
A total of 987,000 16-24 year-olds - equivalent to more than one in eight - were categorised as NEETs (not in education, employment or training) in the year to December, an increase of 877,000 on the previous year.
The CSJ found this rise had been exacerbated by a fall of 49,000 in the number of young Britons on company payrolls between January 2020 and December 2024.
By contrast, the number of young non-EU migrants employed by British businesses soared by 258,000.
