28/05/2017 London News

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UK businesses will be partly to blame if there's a shortage

of skilled labour after Brexit according to a former leader

Iain Duncan Smith says companies have been too quick

Labour says it's the Conservative's education cuts which have

London, a city built on attracting global talent and largely

Hardly surprising then that some in the construction industry

are worried about post-Brexit curbs on in immigration.

Around 50% of our workforce comes from Eastern Europe.

If you reduce that, if you put barriers in the way,

that is a significant hurdle and you will have real

We have already got a skills shortage at the moment in the UK.

If you make it harder for people to come in,

how will that skills shortage be better?

The answer is for UK workers to fill the gaps,

according to former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith,

and he says businesses themselves are partly to blame if there is not

Many of them don't even bother to train British workers.

When I was running the DWP I can tell you, we had queues of people

I think they haven't trained people enough

There has been little or no serious training of lots of people and why?

It was too easy to go somewhere else and get skilled people in

That drew derision from one Labour candidate today who said

government education cuts had reduced training facilities.

The solution is yes, you have to skill workers both at the

education level and on the job, but you also have to

You have to have an immigration policy which is based on need,

not on some arbitrary figure sort of dreamed up to please

The nuances of the different parties' immigration policy

will be carefully evaluated here in the capital,

but many businesses will tell you, their biggest problem

Katharine, this issue of uncertainty is key, isn't it?

Absolutely. It is not just about Brexit now. It is about which party

leader might be leading the Brexit negotiations and what that will mean

for businesses. It is not just the construction industry which is

affected by EU labour here. We also spoke to a CEO in the financial

technology sector and he told us he needs to be able to poach the very

best brains from the EU and bring them here. Another said much of the

future of his business will absolutely depend on the kind of

trade deals that are done following Brexit. Yes, the NHS, housing,

education, all extremely important for London voters. This city voted

60% to remain in the EU, but I do think Brexit and what it means for

migration and the city's economy could play out very importantly

here. Thank you. Plans to resurface RAF Northolt

could lead to an increase in commercial flights

using the military base. That's the fear held by some

residents in North West London. But the local council says any claim

the air base will be turned into a Heathrow

overspill is incorrect. We already have the airport codes

and HR, LGW and Elsie Y. One day could a luggage tag with a different

code be attached to our bags? This woman says there are too many planes

here at Northolt already. Any conversations you have, anything you

are doing are brought to a halt. You just have to stand there and wait

until it goes. I have been in a friend's house under a flight path

at Heathrow, and it is comparable here. RAF Northolt is used as the

airport for the Queen, politicians and the military. It is where the

nurse Pauline Cafferkey was brought back to after she caught a bowler in

Sierra Leone. But now twice as many private planes

use this runway as military ones. The RAF say they have spare capacity

here at Northolt and they will continue to use it by allowing

civilian commercial aircraft to fly in about of the airbase. They say it

is the best return for the taxpayer. But the runway is being resurfaced

next year and it is expected to cost around ?45 million. Some people are

worried the number of planes both big and small will go up in order to

pay the bill and they will not have their say. The local council says as

a military airfield there is no requirement for the council to go to

a consultation, nor is there any truth in the room RAF Northolt can

accommodate commercial passenger carrying jets. Even with resurfacing

the runway will still be too short to take them.

So, what's the weather got in store for us this bank holiday Monday?

We could possibly see some torrential downpours

Some thunder and some lightning, a lot of rain falling

within a short space of time, hence

But by the time most of us wake up tomorrow on bank holiday Monday,

it should be much drier picture, but always the risk of some

showers here and there, particularly through the afternoon.

The best of tomorrow's sunshine will be towards eastern areas

and that is where we will see the temperatures too.

Those temperatures are set to rise again through next week,

We'll be back just after the National news at 10.25pm tonight.

But for now - from all of the evening team.

Hello, for some it is forecast to have seen its like already. The day

was half decent for many. Certainly this afternoon across the south it

really did begin to cloud up. Some of you have seen a good deal worse

than this. What is going on? We are importing more mild air from the

continent. The rain has already arrived in some parts of southern

England and Wales. We are not without the chance of some thunder.

The rain will move eventually towards Northern Ireland and the

Scottish Borders. Because it is so close and those are the night-time

minimum is, yes,