“I want there to be a shortage of labor, because it is the way of obtaining improvements in productivity,” said TICE. “This is the way of making wage growth is the least affluent and it is the way to withdraw millions of people on the advantages and return to work.”
For TICE, any mobility agreement for young people – a key objective of the EU in the upcoming talks – would open “a door stolen from freedom of movement”. The British Labor Government has repeatedly stressed that a return to free post-Brexit free traffic is a red line in all talks with Brussels. Aware of being accused of disappointing Brexit, he also excluded a return to the customs union or the single market.
But Tice said of the mobility of young people: “You will have many young people from Eastern Europe, Bulgaria and Romania, pay in the United Kingdom, then find reasons to stay here or go beyond their visas. It is the end of openness to freedom of movement (EU). ”
Despite the concerns that Great Britain could face acute work shortages in sectors such as health care and hospitality, TICE called its “carrot and stick” approach-arguing that workers’ shortages would force wages and thus encourage more participation in labor.
“We want a leading system in the world,” he said. “But if you think you can make a lifestyle choice to sit on your back and watch TV all day, forget it.
No matter as long as the boats stop
Elsewhere in his interview, the boss of the assistant reform rejected the idea of reopening negotiations with Brussels entirely until France “performs their legal obligation” to stop small boats carrying irregular migrants through the English Channel.
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