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Summer holidays unaffordable for millions of people in full-time work in Britain
People enjoy the Bank Holiday weather on the western strip of the beach at Bournemouth, in August 2020
MILLIONS of people in Britain cannot afford a summer holiday despite working full-time, shocking new research has revealed.
European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) analysis of data from Eurostat – the statistical office of the European Union – found that the number of workers in Britain with income below the poverty line was nearly 4.3 million.
Those not earning enough to reach the threshold – set at 60 per cent of national median income – are considered “at risk of real poverty” and are likely excluded from annual getaways.
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