Plus, how can $10bn fight climate change?
| | | | A much stricter "Australian-style points-based" immigration system has long been promised for a post-Brexit Britain, but now we have the detail of what it will look like. Assuming it gets approval from MPs and peers, the main features will be: •No visas for low-skilled workers - the likes of restaurant, care home and food processing plant staff. •Visitors - from EU or non-EU countries - will be able to come to the UK for six months without a visa, but won't be able to work. •Overseas workers will have to speak English and have the offer of a skilled job with an "approved sponsor". •They'll also need to collect points elsewhere - with certain qualifications, for example - in order to clear the 70-point hurdle. Some rules will be loosened to help those looking to recruit - for example, the scheme for seasonal workers in agriculture will be expanded. There will also no longer be an overall limit on the number of skilled workers allowed to come and the salary cap for them will be lowered. While business group the CBI has welcomed some of the proposals, it joins the likes of the Royal College of Nursing, the Food and Drink Federation and the National Farmers' Union who are very worried about potential shortages. Unison says the plans "spell absolute disaster for the care sector" in particular. Labour and the SNP seem to agree. The government insists it wants employers to "move away" from relying on "cheap labour" from Europe and invest in retaining staff and developing automation technology instead. The BBC Briefing team has produced an in-depth online guide to immigration - check it out. You can also find out how immigration has changed in your area in recent decades. | |
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| | | | | Ten billion dollars - or £7.7bn - sounds like a serious amount of money. It's how much the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, has said he'll spend to fight climate change. But what do you even spend $10bn on? And is it anywhere near enough? According to Prof Elizabeth Robinson, we already know what a lot of the solutions are but "they're still not happening". Elizabeth, an expert in environmental economics from the University of Reading, suggests the money could be spent on persuading governments to stop funding fossil fuels. "We need to start investing in clean energy instead like renewable. If we do that we're a lot of the way there." | |
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| | | | There's much coverage of those immigration plans. The Daily Mail says they represent the "biggest shake-up to border rules" since the UK joined the Common Market in 1973. The i says the country is "closing the door" to low-skilled migrant workers. The Daily Express feels the tough new border controls are aiming to "encourage talent", but points out that a plumber with good English and a £24,000-a-year contract would be blocked from entering. Elsewhere, the Times reveals that a new offside law could be implemented before this summer's Euro 2020 football championships. It'll require "daylight" between the attacker and defender. The Daily Mirror suggests the change could solve what it describes as the "VAR nightmare" . | |
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| | | Today: Inquest into the death of Caroline Flack will open in east London |
| | | | Today: The Green Party's Sian Berry launches her bid for London mayor |
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| | | | 2001 Foot-and-mouth disease is detected at an abattoir in Essex - it turns out to be the start of a UK-wide epidemic. Watch the BBC report. |
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