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Britain is on the sick

Camilla Tominey The Telegraph

It’s all very well to be tough on immigration, but who is going to fill our million job vacancies if Brits refuse to work, asks Camilla Tominey. The impact of lockdowns have proved “devastating”. There are 1.2 million more people on working-age benefits today than there would have been had pre-Covid trends continued, while more than 2.6 million (up 500,000 since the pandemic) are economically inactive due to “long-term sickness”, with 53% of those reporting “depression, bad

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