The unemployed will be sent to skills “bootcamps” to train them to become waiters, carers and delivery drivers under plans to use a “hidden army” of British workers to cut immigration.
Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, will on Tuesday acknowledge that Rishi Sunak’s immigration crackdown will leave some industries short of workers, but insist that “for too long we have relied on labour from abroad when there is great talent right here in the UK”.
Promising “a new economic model based on British talent”, Stride will set out plans to work with businesses to identify the areas most short of workers and develop training programmes to equip the unemployed to take up such jobs.
The first sectors are likely to include hospitality, social
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