Skills minister: Companies should employ locally first

A Conservative minister is pushing for UK companies to hire British people, rather than immigrants, the Daily Mail has said.

Skills minister Matthew Hancock told the Today programme's Evan Davis that as vacancies rise and unemployment falls, it is "the duty" of firms, especially big businesses, to take on local young people - and not immediately take the "easy option" of recruiting workers from abroad.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday 26 July 2013.