Priti Patel, the home secretary, is said to be overseeing an anti-business systemPriti Patel may be preoccupied with migrants landing on the UK’s shores in small boats but City lawyers argue that ministers face a more important immigration problem. While the home secretary attempts to crack down on people trafficking, there are concerns at the other end of the economic spectrum that, while immigration policy has focused on attracting technology specialists, innovators and scientists, it has been less successful at luring what one lawyer describes as “seasoned founders in non-tech businesses who are the real job creators”. SponsoredMore broadly, business immigration experts claim that the post-Brexit rules threaten to hinder the UK’s economic recovery and need urgent reform so that entrepreneurs from the EU can more easily launch businesses on this side of the Channel. “The current

Source: The Times June 02, 2021 23:03 UTC