May’s Government Facing Split Over Plan to List Foreign Workers
- Minister condemns plan to make companies list foreign workers
- Senior Tories say policy wouldn’t pass vote in Parliament
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Splits emerged in Prime Minister Theresa May’s U.K. government over her vision for immigration just days after a speech designed to unite her party behind Brexit.
A government minister speaking on condition of anonymity condemned a proposal to force companies to list foreign workers, proposed by Home Secretary Amber Rudd at the Conservative Party conference on Tuesday, as illegal, discriminatory and said it would have to be abandoned because it would not pass a vote in Parliament.