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Brexit creates workers shortfall.

 The post-Brexit UK economy is facing a shortfall of more than 300,000 workers as the result of

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ending the free movement of labour with the EU, according to a new estimate by researchers. After the UK left the EU, it shifted to a points-based immigration system that allows skilled workers earning more than £25,600 a year or £10.10 an hour to obtain work visas, but the research found the plan was «not liberal enough» to compensate for the loss of EU workers. The study assessed the shortfall in workers by using data from the Annual Population Survey to compare actual numbers of workers from the EU and the rest of the world against an estimate of the immigrant labour force had the UK not ended the free movement. Jane Gratton, head of people policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, said competition for workers was feeding inflation and urged the Home Office to reform the shortage occupation list.

These included how a recent influx of immigrants from Ukraine and Hong Kong would feed into the workforce and whether or not EU workers who left the UK during Covid-19 but had permanently settled status rights under the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement would come back to the UK.

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  1. Laura17 January 2023 at 10:08

    300,000 is a huge number! I can't believe the government didn't see this coming?! Why haven't they considered this in the first place?

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    1. Ian17 January 2023 at 10:25

      Unfortunately our recent governments have been incompetent (to say the least) so we can't expect much from them. The whole Brexit thing was rushed and not addressed as it should.

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    2. Tom17 January 2023 at 12:02

      Brexit (before even voting for it) should have been discussed openly, with the community, for at least 5 years! And then we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now.

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  2. John17 January 2023 at 14:07

    300,000? I was thinking we were closer to 500,000. They need to find a way to allow free movement of labour with the EU once more.

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