U.K. Must Make Itself less Economically Attractive

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But you can't get a visa to work in the UK unless you meet quite stringent threshold, i.e. shortage occupation, salary requirements etc.. It's illegal to not perform right to work checks and employ illegal immigrants.

So those non-EU migrants wouldn't be able to work in the 1 million UK vacancies and if they do work, it would be in unregulated work, cash in hand jobs. Non-EU migrants aren't flocking here at the thought of working in these type of jobs.

On the contrary, I think they are. There is nothing more a Non-EU migrant who shouldn't be there would want on arrival into this country than cash in hand work.

And there is probably is a fair bit about at the moment, particularly in agriculture.

In the long term, once they get some documents and foundations in the country, then they would be interested in those regulated jobs you talk about. And we urgently need them to fill the void left by EU workers.