Keir Starmer promises to end ‘short-term fix’ of foreign workers

Labour leader calls on business leaders to stop using cheap labour' to plug workforce shortages

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Keir Starmer has issued a challenge to business leaders, vowing to end the short-term fix" of using foreign workers to plug labour shortages and seeking to toughen up his party's stance on immigration.

Though he promised to be pragmatic" and avoid a repeat of last year's lack of lorry drivers that crippled entire sectors of our economy", the Labour leader said companies should be weaned off cheap labour".