// Next boss Lord Wolfson insists the government should allow more foreign workers to tackle labour shortages
// Wolfson said the UK’s current immigration policy was impacting economic growth
Next CEO and prominent Brexiteer Lord Wolfson has urged the government to allow more foreign workers into the UK to tackle labour shortages.
Wolfson said the UK’s current immigration policy was impacting economic growth and businesses should pay a tax to employ foreign workers.
He said the government needed to decide whether the UK was an open free trading nation, or whether post-Brexit it wanted to be “fortress Britain”, BBC News reported.
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“I think in respect of immigration, it’s definitely not the Brexit that I wanted, or indeed, many of people who voted Brexit wanted,” he said.
“And we have to remember, you know, we’re all stuck in this Brexit argument, we have to remember that what post-Brexit Britain looks like, is not the preserve of those people that voted Brexit, it’s for all of us to decide.
“Yes, control it, where it’s damaging to society, but let people in who can who can contribute.”
He suggested that businesses who need foreign workers should be able to pay a tax of 10% to the government on foreign workers’ salaries to ensure that only the businesses that really couldn’t find UK workers would recruit overseas.
If only politicians would listen to those at the sharp end who really now what’s going outside the Westminster bubble. We need right now workers in the hospitality and agriculture / horticulture sectors.
Why couldn’t those who promoted Brexit foresee these issues. I’m not that smart but it was obvious that we’d see an exodus of people willing to work at jobs and wages that the average brit won’t put up with.