CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Immigration reform in the UK
On this week’s Centre for European Reform podcast, associate fellow John Springford sat down with Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory at Oxford University and deputy chair of the Migration Advisory Committee to discuss the British government's white paper on immigration, which proposes some more reforms to a migration regime that has been going through a lot of change over the last few years.
They spoke about new restrictions on middle-skilled jobs, which will no longer be eligible for skilled worker visas.
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