The dark side of the ‘summer of a lifetime’: young Britons exploited in jobs at Mediterranean party resorts

The experience is sold as the “summer of a lifetime”: a chance to party in the sun while getting paid. And each year, thousands of Brits take up seasonal jobs abroad, tempted by beaches, nightclubs, boats and booze.

But young people booking working holidays in the Mediterranean are being misled into working illegally – and sometimes living in squalor – after being given false promises by unregulated agents, an investigation has found.