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

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.