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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Michael Goodier

Revealed: Brexit voting areas have seen faster growth in foreign workers since EU referendum

Boris Johnson delivers a speech surrounded by Vote Leave campaigners.
Boris Johnson on the campaign trail for Vote Leave in the run-up to the 2016 EU referendum. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Leave-voting areas have seen faster relative growth in foreign workers since the Brexit referendum, a Guardian investigation has found.

Data analysis suggests that the decade since the Brexit vote may not have matched the expectations of many Leave supporters, showing their local areas have also become relatively more deprived over the same period.

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