Labour’s Starmer Offers Business Leaders ‘Pragmatic’ Approach to Migration

Labour’s Starmer Offers Business Leaders ‘Pragmatic’ Approach to Migration
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer delivers a keynote speech on day two of the CBI Annual Conference at The Vox Conference Centre in Birmingham, England, on Nov. 22, 2022. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has promised a “new partnership” with business and said his government would take a “pragmatic” approach to economic migration.

But in a speech to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference on Tuesday he urged companies to wean themselves off low-paid, cheap overseas labour.

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