{"id":103725,"date":"2025-05-15T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/103725\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T14:27:11","slug":"britain-needs-a-labor-shortage-not-eu-youth-mobility-says-farages-deputy-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/103725\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain needs a labor shortage, not EU youth mobility, says Farage\u2019s deputy \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI want there to be a labor shortage, because that\u2019s the way to getting productivity improvements,\u201d Tice said. \u201cThat\u2019s the way to get wage growth for the least well-off and that\u2019s the way to get millions of people off benefits and back into work.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Tice, any youth mobility deal \u2014 a key EU objective in upcoming talks \u2014 would open \u201ca backdoor to the freedom of movement.” Britain’s Labour government has repeatedly stressed that a return to European free movement post-Brexit is a red line in any talks with Brussels. Mindful of being accused of unpicking Brexit, it has similarly ruled out pushing a return to the customs union or single market.<\/p>\n

But Tice said of youth mobility: \u201cYou will have lots of young people from Eastern Europe, Bulgaria and Romania, pouring into the U.K. and then finding reasons to stay here or overstay their visas. This is the thin end of opening to [EU] freedom of movement.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite concerns that Britain could face acute labor shortages<\/a> in sectors like healthcare and hospitality, Tice called his approach \u201ccarrot and stick\u201d \u2014 arguing that worker shortages would force wages up and thereby encourage more participation in the workforce.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want a world leading-benefit system,\u201d he said. \u201cBut if you think you can make a lifestyle choice to sit on your backside and watch telly all day, forget it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

No deal until boats stop<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elsewhere in his interview, the deputy Reform boss dismissed the idea of reopening negotiations with Brussels entirely until France \u201ccarries out their legal obligation\u201d to stop small boats carrying irregular migrants across the English Channel.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI want there to be a labor shortage, because that\u2019s the way to getting productivity improvements,\u201d Tice said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[13489,33,2000,299,5187,36,1195,33190,4348,40,807,8175,5733,809,8721,1438,16,15,6863,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-103725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-bulgaria","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-growth","15":"tag-health-professionals-workforce","16":"tag-healthcare","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-labor","20":"tag-mobility","21":"tag-negotiations","22":"tag-richard-tice","23":"tag-romania","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-visas","27":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114512320593530443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}