:00:00. > :00:00.There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel,
:00:00. > :00:00.and I'll be back with the late News at Ten.
:00:00. > :00:14.Now on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.
:00:15. > :00:18.Welcome to BBC London, I'm Claudia-Liza Armah.
:00:19. > :00:21.UK businesses will be partly to blame if there's a shortage
:00:22. > :00:23.of skilled labour after Brexit according to a former leader
:00:24. > :00:26.Iain Duncan Smith says companies have been too quick
:00:27. > :00:37.Labour says it's the Conservative's education cuts which have
:00:38. > :00:42.London, a city built on attracting global talent and largely
:00:43. > :00:45.Hardly surprising then that some in the construction industry
:00:46. > :00:49.are worried about post-Brexit curbs on in immigration.
:00:50. > :00:52.Around 50% of our workforce comes from Eastern Europe.
:00:53. > :00:55.If you reduce that, if you put barriers in the way,
:00:56. > :00:58.that is a significant hurdle and you will have real
:00:59. > :01:04.We have already got a skills shortage at the moment in the UK.
:01:05. > :01:07.If you make it harder for people to come in,
:01:08. > :01:11.how will that skills shortage be better?
:01:12. > :01:14.The answer is for UK workers to fill the gaps,
:01:15. > :01:16.according to former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith,
:01:17. > :01:19.and he says businesses themselves are partly to blame if there is not
:01:20. > :01:25.Many of them don't even bother to train British workers.
:01:26. > :01:30.When I was running the DWP I can tell you, we had queues of people
:01:31. > :01:34.I think they haven't trained people enough
:01:35. > :01:40.There has been little or no serious training of lots of people and why?
:01:41. > :01:43.It was too easy to go somewhere else and get skilled people in
:01:44. > :01:47.That drew derision from one Labour candidate today who said
:01:48. > :01:49.government education cuts had reduced training facilities.
:01:50. > :01:52.The solution is yes, you have to skill workers both at the
:01:53. > :01:56.education level and on the job, but you also have to
:01:57. > :02:02.You have to have an immigration policy which is based on need,
:02:03. > :02:05.not on some arbitrary figure sort of dreamed up to please
:02:06. > :02:10.The nuances of the different parties' immigration policy
:02:11. > :02:13.will be carefully evaluated here in the capital,
:02:14. > :02:15.but many businesses will tell you, their biggest problem
:02:16. > :02:29.Katharine, this issue of uncertainty is key, isn't it?
:02:30. > :02:36.Absolutely. It is not just about Brexit now. It is about which party
:02:37. > :02:40.leader might be leading the Brexit negotiations and what that will mean
:02:41. > :02:45.for businesses. It is not just the construction industry which is
:02:46. > :02:49.affected by EU labour here. We also spoke to a CEO in the financial
:02:50. > :02:53.technology sector and he told us he needs to be able to poach the very
:02:54. > :02:57.best brains from the EU and bring them here. Another said much of the
:02:58. > :03:01.future of his business will absolutely depend on the kind of
:03:02. > :03:07.trade deals that are done following Brexit. Yes, the NHS, housing,
:03:08. > :03:13.education, all extremely important for London voters. This city voted
:03:14. > :03:16.60% to remain in the EU, but I do think Brexit and what it means for
:03:17. > :03:19.migration and the city's economy could play out very importantly
:03:20. > :03:22.here. Thank you. Plans to resurface RAF Northolt
:03:23. > :03:24.could lead to an increase in commercial flights
:03:25. > :03:26.using the military base. That's the fear held by some
:03:27. > :03:28.residents in North West London. But the local council says any claim
:03:29. > :03:31.the air base will be turned into a Heathrow
:03:32. > :03:44.overspill is incorrect. We already have the airport codes
:03:45. > :03:52.and HR, LGW and Elsie Y. One day could a luggage tag with a different
:03:53. > :03:59.code be attached to our bags? This woman says there are too many planes
:04:00. > :04:02.here at Northolt already. Any conversations you have, anything you
:04:03. > :04:07.are doing are brought to a halt. You just have to stand there and wait
:04:08. > :04:12.until it goes. I have been in a friend's house under a flight path
:04:13. > :04:17.at Heathrow, and it is comparable here. RAF Northolt is used as the
:04:18. > :04:27.airport for the Queen, politicians and the military. It is where the
:04:28. > :04:29.nurse Pauline Cafferkey was brought back to after she caught a bowler in
:04:30. > :04:32.Sierra Leone. But now twice as many private planes
:04:33. > :04:35.use this runway as military ones. The RAF say they have spare capacity
:04:36. > :04:39.here at Northolt and they will continue to use it by allowing
:04:40. > :04:46.civilian commercial aircraft to fly in about of the airbase. They say it
:04:47. > :04:51.is the best return for the taxpayer. But the runway is being resurfaced
:04:52. > :04:55.next year and it is expected to cost around ?45 million. Some people are
:04:56. > :04:59.worried the number of planes both big and small will go up in order to
:05:00. > :05:04.pay the bill and they will not have their say. The local council says as
:05:05. > :05:07.a military airfield there is no requirement for the council to go to
:05:08. > :05:12.a consultation, nor is there any truth in the room RAF Northolt can
:05:13. > :05:21.accommodate commercial passenger carrying jets. Even with resurfacing
:05:22. > :05:22.the runway will still be too short to take them.
:05:23. > :05:26.So, what's the weather got in store for us this bank holiday Monday?
:05:27. > :05:36.We could possibly see some torrential downpours
:05:37. > :05:39.Some thunder and some lightning, a lot of rain falling
:05:40. > :05:41.within a short space of time, hence
:05:42. > :05:46.But by the time most of us wake up tomorrow on bank holiday Monday,
:05:47. > :05:49.it should be much drier picture, but always the risk of some
:05:50. > :05:50.showers here and there, particularly through the afternoon.
:05:51. > :05:53.The best of tomorrow's sunshine will be towards eastern areas
:05:54. > :05:55.and that is where we will see the temperatures too.
:05:56. > :05:58.Those temperatures are set to rise again through next week,
:05:59. > :06:04.We'll be back just after the National news at 10.25pm tonight.
:06:05. > :06:11.But for now - from all of the evening team.
:06:12. > :06:18.Hello, for some it is forecast to have seen its like already. The day
:06:19. > :06:21.was half decent for many. Certainly this afternoon across the south it
:06:22. > :06:27.really did begin to cloud up. Some of you have seen a good deal worse
:06:28. > :06:31.than this. What is going on? We are importing more mild air from the
:06:32. > :06:36.continent. The rain has already arrived in some parts of southern
:06:37. > :06:40.England and Wales. We are not without the chance of some thunder.
:06:41. > :06:45.The rain will move eventually towards Northern Ireland and the
:06:46. > :06:48.Scottish Borders. Because it is so close and those are the night-time
:06:49. > :06:49.minimum is, yes,