The government wants to boost British startups through immigration
Even as lorry-drivers and chefs are kept out
PULLING THE lever marked “uncontrolled immigration”, said the prime minister in an interview broadcast as the Conservative Party’s annual conference kicked off on October 3rd, was the wrong way to solve labour shortages. Britain is experiencing many of these at the moment, but employers should not expect to be able to import their way out of them. Instead, he said, haulage firms, poultry farms and abattoirs that lack workers ought to entice Britons into such jobs by training them up and paying them more.
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Britain October 9th 2021
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