Acute labour shortages in sectors from health to fishing, exacerbated by Brexit, driving need to allow more non-EU workers into country
And in 2019, Boris Johnson promised “overall numbers would come down” as he aimed to “take back control” of UK borders in line with the leave campaign he led to victory. Instead, the numbers ballooned.that landed on Rishi Sunak’s desk on Thursday morning, a day after an Ipsos poll found that Labour is now more trusted than the Tories on immigration policies.
But how should he explain the enormous boom in visas handed out to workers – particularly after Suella BravermanPart of the answer lies in Johnson’s decision to introduce a points-based immigration system allowing employers to recruit overseas workers with some language skills and earning potential of £25,600.
This has led to a change in the workforce coming to the UK. Post-Brexit, Indians account for more than a third of those coming to the UK on long-term visas. Many of the Polish workers who arrived in the early 2000s have left. The Resolution Foundation has pointed out that the net migration rise has been entirely driven by non-EU workers, whose numbers are up by 220,000.Migration patterns have shifted away from London, the thinktank has found. The West Midlands saw the biggest fall in the share of UK-born workers, down 5%, as well as the biggest increase in non-EU born workers, up 3 %.
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