According to recent figures, around 10 million Britons are unemployed or not seeking for employment, while in only five years, over a million foreign workers have entered the UK.

According to monthly data published by the Office for National Statistics, there are now slightly over 9.4 million "economically inactive" Britons in the country.

That figure marks a jump of almost 30,000 in the last month alone, building on trends which started before the pandemic.

Since the end of 2019, the number of 16 to 64-year-olds out of work has surged by over 1 million people - 230,000 of which were born overseas.

That still leaves a staggering 830,000 "economically inactive" Britons - with contributing factors including those claiming long-term sickness and a bump in the number of students.

Since students are counted as being out-of-work, the jump in foreign jobless people can largely be pinned on foreign student numbers having shot up.

But among Britons, a rise in the number of people in full-time education only accounts for a third of the rise of out-of-work people born in this country.

In total, the amount of British-born workers has fallen by 967,000 since the end of 2019 - and further ONS data shows that foreign-born workers are making up the gap.