UK now among most accepting countries for foreign workers, survey finds

There are 1.1m vacancies in the UK, 300,000 more than before the pandemic. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock

The UK has become one of the world’s most accepting places for foreign workers, according to a survey in 24 nations revealing a sharp increase in British acceptance of economic migration.

People in the UK emerged as less likely to think that when jobs are scarce employers should give priority to people of their own country than those in Norway, Canada, France, Spain, the US, Australia and Japan. Only Germany and Sweden were more open on that question.