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

Ian Duncan Smith, a candidate for the Chingford and Wood Green

seat, says companies have been too quick to rely on foreign workers.

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 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

This does not just affect the construction industry? We spoke to

CEOs in the technology sector and one said he wants to poach the very

best brains from Europe and bring them here and if you cannot do that

he might consider moving his company and another said the future of his

business depended on the kind of trade deals are done. That is very

much going to depend on who ends up around the negotiating table, we

mutually Simone Laudehr so hard Brexit, to come out of the single

market and drive down immigration, hitting certain targets. Jeremy

Corbyn says he will prioritise staying in the single market and he

will work to guarantee the rights of EU citizens here in London. And the

rest of the UK. For a city that voted by 60% to stay in the EU,

there is still a lot to play for. Thank you.

A woman who was shot dead on Friday evening in Kilburn has been named.

20-year-old Mohanna Abdhou was talking with friends on Malvern Road

when they were approached by two males on bicycles.

A gun was fired towards the group and Mohana,

known as Montana to her friends, died from a single gunshot wound.

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.

They're worried that a planned ?45 million upgrade to the existing

runway will mean more noise if the Ministry of Defence sell more

Any conversations you have, anything you are doing,

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,

In a statement, Hillingdon Council's leader told BBC London

that there is no truth in the rumour that RAF Northolt can accommodate

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

There will be some torrential downpours at times tonight.

We have a Met Office warning for very heavy rain indeed.

Some thunder and some lightning also, but the time most of us wake

up tomorrow on Bank Holiday Monday, it should be a much drier picture.

Always a risk of some heavy showers, particularly through the afternoon.

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

that is where we will see the highest temperatures.

Temperatures will rise through next week.