For the past seven years, Natasha Edwards has spent winter training on Alpine pistes to fulfil her dream of becoming a professional ski instructor. Snow has come early this year, and she was eagerly preparing for the final test that would qualify her to work long-term in her pick of mountain resorts. However, she had not reckoned with becoming entangled in the machinations of Britain’s policy on Brexit. Edwards, 31, is among 2,000 Britons who live in ski resorts or work there for the season, but whose careers may be over because the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has revoked an agreement permitting qualified instructors to work in the EU after December 31. Her only chance of a reprieve is if she

Source: The Times November 22, 2020 00:04 UTC