Britain loses its luster for job seekers from Poland to Portugal
The shift in economic fortunes has added to the upheaval in Britain’s labor market since the pandemic and the decision to exit the E.U.
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The shift in economic fortunes has added to the upheaval in Britain’s labor market since the pandemic and the decision to exit the E.U.
For the UK, that means that arrivals from the EU of just over 150,000 last year were about half the level seen in 2019, according to figures released Thursday by the Office for National Statistics. That’s despite a record 606,000 for net migration into the UK in 2022.
Wages have almost doubled in Poland and quintupled in Romania in the last 20 years
The quotation which came to mind (from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet) was that “the lady doth protest too much”
What Suella Braverman came away with was undoubtedly extremely aggravating but, for what it is worth...