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Rod Liddle: UK Correspondent on the high inactivity number in the UK, with 9.41 million people out of work

Published: Aug. 14, 2024, 10:59 p.m.

Millions of Brits are out of work and not looking for more.\xa0

Official figures show that inactivity is sitting at 9.41 million, or 22.2% of the working age population, which is up 350,000 from 2023.\xa0

UK Correspondent Rod Liddle told Mike Hosking that while some of those people are students and people taking early retirement, there\u2019s still a residue of 4-5 million people who either haven\u2019t gone back to work or haven\u2019t started.\xa0

He said that he suspects several things are to blame for this: an influx of foreign-born workers, mental illness and ill health, and a lack of incentive and benefits to being in the workforce.\xa0

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