Tens of thousand of migrants will still be able to come to Britain to fill low-skilled jobs after Brexit under immigration proposals unveiled yesterday.
They will be allowed to travel to Britain to seek work for up to a year in areas such as catering and food processing, regardless of whether they themselves are high or low skilled.
The proposals for the temporary work route, which will operate initially until 2025, are part of a government attempt to deal with concerns that Brexit will lead to labour shortages in areas such as horticulture and hospitality. One source said that it was a “safety valve” for sectors of the economy that had come to rely on low-skilled EU labour.
Neither the temporary work route nor a
