Recession-hit UK needs more migrant labour: business group

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% :Addressing the conference, Sunak ducked the CBI's call for more legal migrant labour -- and stressed that he was focussed on curbing illegal migration.
61% : "I'm anti-Brexit in every way.
60% : Anita Donohoe, a conference attendee representing Kinaxia Logistics, said that while "immigration is very important", Sunak is right to "tackle illegal immigration".
52% : The UK has forecast its economy to shrink 1.4 percent next year, hit additionally by fallout from Brexit which has resulted in foreign workers returning home.
52% : The UK has forecast its economy to shrink 1.4 percent next year, hit additionally by fallout from Brexit which has resulted in foreign workers returning home.
43% : The CBI conference comes after the government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last week slashed spending and hiked taxes in a budget, despite admitting that the inflation-wracked economy had fallen into recession.
37% : Andrew Guy of Friisberg and Partners hit out over Britain's departure from the European Union for contributing to a skills shortage and affecting businesses generally, including their exports.

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