Britain is desperate for workers – but Sunak won’t admit immigration is the answer | Simon Jenkins

Post-Brexit, health and care employers, farmers and builders struggle to fill vacancies while ministers demonise those who could help

A sure sign of a happy country is the eagerness of foreigners to come to live there. One such state is Great Britain. Newcomers are a net benefit to a modern economy and should be welcomed accordingly. Thus, their compliment is returned.

Last year Britain’s ageing population was supplemented by a record net immigration of half a million people. After two years of pa...