Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed Monday to reduce the UK's "long-term reliance on overseas workers" as he unveiled a new skills training organisation aimed at boosting productivity and economic growth. "We're turning the page on that," he insisted, pledging to "reduce our long-term reliance on overseas workers". Skills England will work with another public body, the Migration Advisory Committee, to identify current and future skills gaps and address them. But between 2017 and 2022, UK skills shortages doubled to more than half a million and account for more than a third of job vacancies, the ministry said. Skills England will be working on this issue to make sure that we got the skills in place to bring those levels down."
