Ending free movement of workers by leaving the European Union will help Britain’s poor productivity record, a report by the Policy Exchange think tank has suggested.
Chris Bickerton, who teaches politics at the University of Cambridge and supports Brexit, has concluded that the vote to leave the EU was driven in part by the flexible labour market in the UK. He said that employers’ easy source of cheap labour from the EU had exacerbated “longstanding weaknesses” in vocational and skills training in the UK and had led many low-skilled domestic workers to feel “a sense of exclusion from the national story”.
However, he said that a drop in EU workers would be a “catalyst for higher business investment”, leading to employers investing in new equipment,