Firms that rely on foreign workers to keep wages down undermine the new ...
Firms that rely on foreign workers to keep wages down are trying to undermine the new immigration system, minister claims Kwasi Kwarteng said foreign workers are resisting 'transition' to new economy Said haulage, meat and farm chiefs were citing labour shortages to force U-turn MP for Spelthorne, Surrey, said voters had backed Brexit for ‘precisely this issue’
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Firms that relied on foreign workers to keep wages down are trying to undermine the new immigration system, the Business Secretary claimed last night.
Kwasi Kwarteng accused them of resisting what he described as a ‘transition’ toward an economy with lower migration and higher wages.
Asked if haulage, meat and farm chiefs were citing labour shortages and supply problems to try to force a U-turn, he replied: ‘That’s absolutely right.’
Mr Kwarteng, who is MP for Spelthorne in Surrey, said voters had backed Brexit for ‘precisely this issue’.
‘Three weeks before the referendum in 2016, I came out of Staines station and someone came up to me and said, “I’m voting for Brexit”,’ he told the website ConservativeHome.
‘And I
