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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rob Davies, Sally Weale, Jasper Jolly and Andrew Gregory

‘Things could fall over’: businesses and public services on Starmer’s immigration crackdown

A care home
A care home. The sector is still ‘many thousands of workers short’, said the Unison union. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Keir Starmer’s blueprint for curbing immigration could exacerbate skills shortages in sectors that would “fall over” without immigrant labour, the prime minister has been told.

Starmer said that businesses in particular had become “almost addicted to importing cheap labour” rather than investing in UK talent.

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