BRITAIN’S bogus jobs recovery was exposed yesterday by official stats charting the huge growth in “enforced” self-employment and a massive fall in wages for those registered.

Tory boasts on rising employment were fatally punctured by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) study showing that nearly two in three “jobs” created since the first three months of 2008 were actually people signing up as their own boss.

Around 732,000 people became self-employed over the period compared to 339,000 “employed.”