:00:00. > :00:00.But do stay with us on BBC One - now it's time for the
:00:00. > :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. > :00:27.Ian Duncan Smith, a candidate for the Chingford and Wood Green
:00:28. > :00:31.seat, says companies have been too quick to rely on foreign workers.
:00:32. > :00:33.Labour says it's the Conservative's education cuts which have
:00:34. > :00:41.London, a city built on attracting global talent and largely
:00:42. > :00:51.Hardly surprising then that some in the construction industry
:00:52. > :00:53.are worried about post-Brexit curbs on immigration.
:00:54. > :00:55.Around 50% of our workforce comes from Eastern Europe.
:00:56. > :00:58.If you reduce that, if you put barriers in the way,
:00:59. > :01:00.that is a significant hurdle and you will have real
:01:01. > :01:07.We have already got a skills shortage at the moment in the UK.
:01:08. > :01:09.If you make it harder for people to come in,
:01:10. > :01:12.how will that skills shortage be better?
:01:13. > :01:14.The answer is for UK workers to fill the gaps,
:01:15. > :01:17.according to former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith,
:01:18. > :01:20.and he says businesses themselves are partly to blame if there is not
:01:21. > :01:25.Many of them don't even bother to train British workers.
:01:26. > :01:34.When I was running the DWP I can tell you, we had queues of people
:01:35. > :01:38.I think they haven't trained people enough
:01:39. > :01:43.There has been little or no serious training of lots of people and why?
:01:44. > :01:46.It was too easy to go somewhere else and get skilled people in
:01:47. > :01:50.That drew derision from one Labour candidate today who said
:01:51. > :01:52.government education cuts had reduced training facilities.
:01:53. > :01:55.The solution is yes, you have to skill workers both at the
:01:56. > :01:58.education level and on the job, but you also have to
:01:59. > :02:05.You have to have an immigration policy which is based on need,
:02:06. > :02:08.not on some arbitrary figure sort of dreamed up to please
:02:09. > :02:14.The nuances of the different parties' immigration policy
:02:15. > :02:17.will be carefully evaluated here in the capital,
:02:18. > :02:19.but many businesses will tell you, their biggest problem
:02:20. > :02:35.This does not just affect the construction industry? We spoke to
:02:36. > :02:39.CEOs in the technology sector and one said he wants to poach the very
:02:40. > :02:42.best brains from Europe and bring them here and if you cannot do that
:02:43. > :02:45.he might consider moving his company and another said the future of his
:02:46. > :02:50.business depended on the kind of trade deals are done. That is very
:02:51. > :02:53.much going to depend on who ends up around the negotiating table, we
:02:54. > :02:58.mutually Simone Laudehr so hard Brexit, to come out of the single
:02:59. > :03:01.market and drive down immigration, hitting certain targets. Jeremy
:03:02. > :03:06.Corbyn says he will prioritise staying in the single market and he
:03:07. > :03:11.will work to guarantee the rights of EU citizens here in London. And the
:03:12. > :03:15.rest of the UK. For a city that voted by 60% to stay in the EU,
:03:16. > :03:18.there is still a lot to play for. Thank you.
:03:19. > :03:22.A woman who was shot dead on Friday evening in Kilburn has been named.
:03:23. > :03:24.20-year-old Mohanna Abdhou was talking with friends on Malvern Road
:03:25. > :03:26.when they were approached by two males on bicycles.
:03:27. > :03:29.A gun was fired towards the group and Mohana,
:03:30. > :03:32.known as Montana to her friends, died from a single gunshot wound.
:03:33. > :03:35.Plans to resurface RAF Northolt could lead to an increase
:03:36. > :03:39.in commercial flights using the military base.
:03:40. > :03:42.That's the fear held by some residents in north west London.
:03:43. > :03:45.They're worried that a planned ?45 million upgrade to the existing
:03:46. > :03:48.runway will mean more noise if the Ministry of Defence sell more
:03:49. > :03:53.Any conversations you have, anything you are doing,
:03:54. > :04:01.You just have to stand there and wait until it goes.
:04:02. > :04:06.I have been in a friend's house under a flight path at Heathrow,
:04:07. > :04:15.In a statement, Hillingdon Council's leader told BBC London
:04:16. > :04:18.that there is no truth in the rumour that RAF Northolt can accommodate
:04:19. > :04:24.So what's the weather got in store for us this bank holiday Monday?
:04:25. > :04:29.There will be some torrential downpours at times tonight.
:04:30. > :04:32.We have a Met Office warning for very heavy rain indeed.
:04:33. > :04:35.Some thunder and some lightning also, but the time most of us wake
:04:36. > :04:39.up tomorrow on Bank Holiday Monday, it should be a much drier picture.
:04:40. > :04:42.Always a risk of some heavy showers, particularly through the afternoon.
:04:43. > :04:44.The best of tomorrow's sunshine will be towards eastern areas,
:04:45. > :04:48.that is where we will see the highest temperatures.
:04:49. > :04:51.Temperatures will rise through next week.