Businesses warn Starmer UK needs foreign workers after Labour pledge to cut immigration
by Joe Middleton
Jun 04, 2024
3 minutes
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Business groups, food producers and a Labour-supporting union have warned Sir Keir Starmer that the UK needs foreign workers to help ease labour shortages, after he vowed to cut immigration.
The Labour leader said the net migration figure of 685,000 has “got to come down” and hit out at Rishi Sunak’s Conservative for failing to cut the numbers.
He said that businesses had become too reliant on workers from overseas
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