Enabling the most skilled migrant workers to tackle Britain’s economic problems in the country. This is the opinion of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the largest employers’ organization in the United Kingdom, which is increasing pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “The problems for the British business community are quite large,” says FD correspondent Joost Dobber.
According to Dobber, three-quarters of UK businesses are understaffed. ‘Unemployment is stubbornly high at 3.6%, the number of vacancies is 1.2 million more than a year ago and many people are out of action for a long time with illness. Since Brexit, companies have not had access to European employees.’
And there’s immediate pain: It’s a choice between the economy or labor migration. And the latter was one of the British arguments for leaving the European Union. It is virtually impossible for Sunak to get his own party to accept this proposal, but if you look at where the British economy is. A “free” solution is to find external staff.
“We have an immigration system that is too nervous to bring in the skills we need,” CBI chief executive Tony Danker said in an interview with Bloomberg. According to him, labor shortages lead to more stagflation. This is a situation where high inflation slows economic growth and unemployment remains high.
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Although he voted for Brexit, Prime Minister Sunak wants to remove many trade barriers with the European Union. One of the options for the UK is a British-European relationship like Switzerland. This is what the Times wrote last weekend. Switzerland has access to the European single market in some form, but has to accept conditions in exchange, including the admission of workers from EU countries. Payments also go from Switzerland to Brussels.
“Under my leadership, the UK will not pursue any relationship with Europe based on alignment with EU law,” Sunak said at the CBI’s annual conference in Birmingham. Having the UK have its own regulatory freedom is “a major opportunity for Brexit,” he said.
Sensitive rate
According to the British newspaper, it is a sensitive course to the right of the Conservative Party. Any approach that requires the UK to adapt to EU rules to gain trade benefits is deemed completely unacceptable by the party’s fiercest Brexiteers.
Danker’s proposal could therefore immediately count on criticism from that side. Former minister Simon Clarke said on Twitter that he hoped this would not be considered, and former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said “this level of betrayal will never be forgiven.” .
Source: BNR
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