The UK will make it harder for employers to hire overseas staff by raising the pay threshold for skilled workers and axing cut-price salaries in shortage sectors, in a bid to reduce record immigration by 300,000 a year.
Under plans set out by home secretary James Cleverly to get to grips with the politically charged issue, workers will need to earn at least £38,700 to obtain a visa, up from £26,200, while care workers will be barred from bringing in dependants from next April.
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