Nov 10, 2022
We need more immigrant workers, says Next boss
The chief executive of High Street chain Next is urging the government to let more foreign workers into the UK to alleviate chronic labour shortages. Lord Wolfson, a Conservative peer, told the BBC that the government needed to decide whether the UK was an open free trading nation, or whether post-Brexit it wanted to be "fortress Britain", pulling up the drawbridge to foreign workers at significant cost to the economy. He suggests 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. He said "the last thing we want them to do" is to give money to businesses that don't really need it, because the government needed to focus "very limited resources on the people that most need help during the upcoming recession". First, unlike the recessions of the early 80s and 90s, when whole industries and regions saw work opportunities disappear, very few workers would be unable to find employment.
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