UK Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott will present later on Thursday the Labour Party's vision of post-Brexit immigration system, which prescribes simplified visa regime for skilled workers from abroad.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 13th September, 2018) UK Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott will present later on Thursday the Labour Party's vision of post-Brexit immigration system, which prescribes simplified visa regime for skilled workers from abroad.
"We have economic needs that dictate we need migrants, to help tackle skills and labour shortages ... I am announcing that Labour in government will establish a completely reformed work visa policy. This policy will sit alongside the existing visas for business trips, students, visitors and tourists ... We will avoid the idiocy of preventing doctors and nurses from coming here to take up job offers. Under our new work visa system, anyone with specified bona fide skills can come here to work," Abbott will say in her speech obtained by The Guardian.
According to Abbott, the new system would allow foreign representatives of a number of professions to get rights of work in the United Kingdom and receive citizenship.
The issue of control over immigration was at the center of the campaign before the 2016 Brexit referendum. The ruling Conservative Party has stressed since the country made the decision to quit the bloc that it would allow the United Kingdom to regain control of its borders.
In 2017, UK Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to keep net migration at "sustainable levels."
In August, the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in its report that net migration, or the difference between people coming into a country and those leaving, from the European Union to the United Kingdom has fallen in the year ending March 2018 to its lowest figure since 2012 amid the country's planned exit from the bloc next year.
