Being hostile to immigration is unfortunately a political necessity in democracies today. Here is UK Governments
white paper on how they are going to reduce net immigration. This is a
good tweet of summarising the main points - increase employer costs to sponsor, requirement of University degree (??), increased scrutiny in sectors / employers hiring ‘too many’ immigrants. It’s obviously daft as UK has a shortfall of labour for essential workers (remember them?), but red meat needs to be thrown to the crowd, so here we are. On a practical level, this will raise the cost of employment, which will either provide more (admin) work for recruiters / HR or - perhaps more likely - further accelerate AI / Automation of services which prove too difficult to hire for (which might again be work for us, if we play our cards right)