On Christmas Eve, the government announced it will extend the worker scheme which allows foreign seasonal workers to come to Britain for up to half a year to do horticulture jobs which have been left vacant.
“We are taking back control, as Boris would say, but when we are taking back control, we are actually deliberately throttling our own businesses because we know the thing we haven’t got control of is labour."
History has taught us that in times of uncertainty, it is better for the global community to work together than distancing itself by isolationism.
Despite the government’s anti-immigrant posturing to win right-wing votes, their current economic model necessitates continued immigration to the UK.
Ali Capper, chairwoman of the NFU’s horticultural board and an apple producer, said that she had never seen crop wastage like it.
By Vanessa Ganguin, founder of London immigration firm Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law EU citizens should not be given preferential access when applying for UK visas, according to the long-awaited Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) report on the future of EEA migration. The EEA migration in the UK: Final report was commissioned by the ...