The BBC reported that the UK, post-Brexit, would only be open for immigrants bringing specific skills, under new plans announced by Home Secretary, Priti Patel:
Low-skilled workers would not get visas under post-Brexit immigration plans unveiled by the government.
It is urging employers to “move away” from relying on “cheap labour” from Europe and invest in retaining staff and developing automation technology.
The Home Office said EU and non-EU citizens coming to the UK would be treated equally after UK-EU free movement ends on 31 December.
Labour said a “hostile environment” would make it hard to attract workers.
But Home Secretary Priti Patel told BBC Breakfast the government wanted to “encourage people with the right talent” and “reduce the levels of people coming to the UK with low skills”.
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Cherry picking only skilled migrants as workers may be seen as a popular strategy at home; but the long term impacts of such migration, on the domestic population, of a strategy which has clear short-term benefits, may take a long time to manifest. It remains to be seen if this policy will prove workable, in practice, particularly in a United Kingdom which has broadly speaking used immigration from other EU member states as a means to procure unskilled labour.
