Conservatives new line on UK immigration "We need more skilled workers in the UK."
October 07 2009 by Liam Clifford
Conservatives unveil plans to change UK immigration and access to skilled UK visas.
The Conservative party has revealed plans to increase the number of skilled UK visas, to attract more high calibre
immigrants to live in the UK if they win the general election in
2010.
"We want to attract more than our fair share of the brightest and
the best," stated shadow minister Damian Green about UK immigration at the party’s annual conference
in Manchester.
He went on to explain that the party wants to achieve a UK
immigration system as close as possible to the Australian immigration system. In
Australia, some professions are listed as particularly in need of immigrants,
while the country also has measures in place simply to attract the most highly
skilled immigrants. He wants to introduce the same system to UK visas.
In order to maintain its position as a global trading
nation, the UK needs to attract more highly qualified graduates and
entrepreneurs to work in the UK than rival economies such as Japan or the
US.
Green added that the UK was “really lucky as a country” that the
influx of immigrants moving to this country with UK visas from Eastern Europe over the past few
years have been “hard working and respectable."
However, he said it was
important that British people feel that their community services are not being
threatened by increasing UK immigration and that newcomers can settle well into
their new communities.
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