Immigration
European Job Seekers Turn Away From UK After Brexit
- UK sees seismic shift in top nationalities searching for jobs
- Right-wing Reform UK capitalizes on anger over migration
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Irish workers have been making the short trip over to the UK to find employment for centuries, escaping famine and more recently the aftermath of the financial crisis.
But new data suggests that job seekers from across the Irish Sea are drying up after Britain’s departure from the European Union amplified a growing anti-immigrant tone coming from politicians.