Starmer Pitches UK Skills Upgrade to Reduce Record Migration
- Says Labour government will work with firms to end skills gap
- Hints at above-inflation pay rise for public sector workers
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his new Labour government would improve skills training in the UK as a way of ending record levels of migration, a key issue during this month’s general election campaign.
“We shouldn’t have as high a level of migration as we do simply because we haven’t got a skills strategy that works,” Starmer said at a speech Monday at the Farnborough International Airshow. He said his administration would not be “pulling the easy lever on importing skills” and instead would work with industry to end what he called the country’s “skills gap.”