Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has promised a “new partnership” with business and said his government would take a “pragmatic” approach to economic migration.
But in a speech to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference on Tuesday he urged companies to wean themselves off low-paid, cheap overseas labour.
Starmer—who was elected leader of the Labour Party in 2020 after it suffered a landslide defeat under his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn at the December 2019 general election—said he accepted that British businesses still needed to rely on overseas workers to fill skills gaps, but he said he would expect that in the longer term they would employ British people….