The British government will consider whether to make it more difficult for companies to hire foreign workers under a new drive to cut immigration set out by interior minister Amber Rudd on Tuesday. Prime Minister Theresa May has said the June 23 vote to leave the European Union was a sign that immigration was too high. Rudd told the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, central England, that while she still wanted to attract the "brightest and the best" to the country, she wanted to incentivise employers to train and hire local workers too. This will include examining whether we should tighten the test companies have to take before recruiting from abroad." The government said it would also examine whether it needed to tighten student immigration rules.

Source: The Star October 04, 2016 12:11 UTC