For years, the experts insisted that the laws of supply and demand do not apply, uniquely, to immigration.
Now that the taboo has lifted, the evidence is arriving thick and fast. Three studies published in the past week alone should settle the argument.
The first, from Cambridge Circus Research, uses previously unpublished HMRC payroll data to measure migration’s effect on pay. Outside London, the typical British worker reportedly earns around £1,060 a year less than they would have if migrant employment had been frozen at its 2015 level, and the loss hits hardest at the lower end of the pay scale. Little wonder that millions of Labour voters have given up on their party and turned to Reform.
The second, from the Centre for Social Justice, finds that four in five of the new payroll jobs added since 2014 have gone to foreign nationals, while millions of Britons have been parked on out-of-work benefits and, in effect, written off.
When an employer can fill a vacancy with cheap migrant labour, there is no reason to pay good wages, train a school-leaver, or buy the machinery that makes each worker more productive. Cheap labour has displaced capital and investment.
Now that the taboo has lifted, the evidence is arriving thick and fast. Three studies published in the past week alone should settle the argument.
The first, from Cambridge Circus Research, uses previously unpublished HMRC payroll data to measure migration’s effect on pay. Outside London, the typical British worker reportedly earns around £1,060 a year less than they would have if migrant employment had been frozen at its 2015 level, and the loss hits hardest at the lower end of the pay scale. Little wonder that millions of Labour voters have given up on their party and turned to Reform.
The second, from the Centre for Social Justice, finds that four in five of the new payroll jobs added since 2014 have gone to foreign nationals, while millions of Britons have been parked on out-of-work benefits and, in effect, written off.
When an employer can fill a vacancy with cheap migrant labour, there is no reason to pay good wages, train a school-leaver, or buy the machinery that makes each worker more productive. Cheap labour has displaced capital and investment.
The third, from the Centre for Policy Studies, confirms what anyone trying to buy a first home already knows. Had net migration been held to the tens of thousands since 2020, the average house in England would reportedly be £15,270 cheaper today; had it been zero, the saving would be £19,370. Renters have paid too. Separate modelling by Onward puts the cost of a quarter-century of net migration at £132 a month on the average English rent, nearly £1,600 a year.
Put the studies together and, for the first time, we can place a price on the betrayal. The average British worker renting outside London is at least £2,000 worse off this year because of a decade of mass migration: £1,060 in lost pay and £940 in higher rent. And that is before we count the social and cultural costs.
Only Reform UK can be trusted to deliver the change this demands. Nigel Farage will ensure more people leave these shores than arrive on them, wean the economy off cheap imported labour and put British-born workers first for jobs and new social housing. The evidence now says plainly that this is the route to lower unemployment, cheaper rents and faster growth.
The experts spent 20 years telling us that mass migration was making Britain richer. We can now see what it cost – and who paid.
Put the studies together and, for the first time, we can place a price on the betrayal. The average British worker renting outside London is at least £2,000 worse off this year because of a decade of mass migration: £1,060 in lost pay and £940 in higher rent. And that is before we count the social and cultural costs.
Only Reform UK can be trusted to deliver the change this demands. Nigel Farage will ensure more people leave these shores than arrive on them, wean the economy off cheap imported labour and put British-born workers first for jobs and new social housing. The evidence now says plainly that this is the route to lower unemployment, cheaper rents and faster growth.
The experts spent 20 years telling us that mass migration was making Britain richer. We can now see what it cost – and who paid.
