Theresa May needs to relax her planned clampdown on migrant workers post-Brexit to avoid destroying the construction sector and any chance it has of hitting government house-building targets, a Tory Brexiteer-led group of MPs has concluded.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for SME housebuilders warned in a new report that the construction industry “cannot absorb the shock to the system” of a swift change to the measures ministers propose in place of EU free movement.
It said: “The shock of the Government’s own immigration initiative could perversely be the reason why the Government subsequently does not hit its target for 300,000 new homes a year.”
