The boss of the UK's largest business group will urge politicians to be 'practical' about immigration.
"First, we have lost hundreds of thousands of people to economic inactivity post Covid," he said. "And anyone who thinks they'll all be back any day now - with the NHS under the pressure it is - is kidding themselves.
"We want to bring down net migration. It's something that is... very important to the British people and we're on the side of the British people," he said. But he warned the UK must go further in order to solve years of stagnating growth and urged the government to make "tough choices" to help. Global factors are partly to blame, with energy and food prices soaring this year due to the war in Ukraine and Covid.
The boss of retailer Next has urged the government to let more foreign workers into the UK to ease labour shortages.current immigration policy was crippling economic growth.
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