The unemployed man of Europe: UK revealed as nation with highest rate of jobless households

Britain has Europe’s highest rate of people living in homes where no one has a job, it was revealed yesterday.

But at the same time, the proportion of families who consider themselves to be ‘deprived’ is one of the lowest in the EU.

Yesterday critics said the figures exposed flaws in the welfare system.

Nearly one in eight children and working age adults in the UK live in a home where no one goes out to work. ...more