Starmer: Relax immigration rules to aid business growth
The Independent|November 22, 2022
Labour will relax immigration rules to boost growth in a renewed push for business support, Sir Keir Starmer is set to say, after Rishi Sunak rebuffed the Confederation of British Industry’s (CBI) call for greater access to overseas workers.
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Starmer: Relax immigration rules to aid business growth

In a speech to business leaders today, the Labour leader will put his party at odds with the government on the key battleground issue, saying his government would be “pragmatic” on migrant workers as part of a national “strategy for growth”. But he will tell the CBI that any easing of restrictions must be matched by commitments from employers on better training, pay and conditions for homegrown staff – to end the “cheap labour” model for growth and wean Britain off its “immigration dependency”.

The head of the UK’s biggest airport group said yesterday that there was no doubt” that Brexit had damaged the economy and had massively exacerbated” labour shortages. Charlie Cornish, chief executive of MAG, said the aviation sector’s ability to recruit workforce at scale and at pace” had been harmed. PreBrexit, that problem was never there.”

Mr Sunak has dismissed reports the government was considering a Swiss-style deal with the EU to remove barriers to trade, which would involve a return to greater freedom of movement for workers. After Tory Brexiteers erupted at the proposal and Nigel Farage branded it a betrayal that would see Conservatives destroyed” at the next election the prime minister insisted he was unequivocal” that under his watch the government would not pursue any relationship with Europe that relies on alignment with EU laws”.

But business leaders said Mr Sunak should open his mind” and recognise that the deep economic downturn forecast last week by the Office for Budget Responsibility makes a closer relationship with the EU vital for Britain. The vice-chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership former Siemens UK chief executive Juergen Maier told The Independent: The thing that’s so difficult for business people to understand is that ideology is getting in the way of economic pragmatism.

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