Overseas bricklayers and carpenters could be able to get work visas more easily in the UK after the government updated its shortage occupation list. / The committee did not recommend any hospitality occupations be included, although it said Brexit and the pandemic had "significant effects" on both sectors.

Jeremy Hunt has denied that the decision to give some overseas construction workers easier access to UK jobs was a "betrayal of Brexit".

Migration to NI may be orientating away from European countries to Asia and Africa, analysis suggests.

Brussels commissioner says bill breaches convention, as legal experts warn of risk to Brexit trade deal.

The government could be about to make a major Brexit U-turn following advice that special immigration status could hold the key to plugging significant labour shortages across the construction industry.

Builders expected to be added to ‘shortage occupation list’ to allow EU labourers to return.

Critics described the government’s approach to immigration as “baffling” and blamed the shortages on Brexit.

Experts are investigating the impact on EU-UK families of strict immigration rules now that the UK has left the European Union.

UK still experiencing problems after three years of Brexit.

It is wrong to argue that the UK’s inability to return asylum seekers to the EU is driving the increase in the number crossing the Channel. / While there is evidence that Brexit is having an impact on small boat crossings, the migration data does not support Brooks’ analysis. Rather, it suggests that Brexit-related labour shortages with the potential for exploitation, is more significant.

Thom Brooks’ report reveals the Government has created the Channel migration ‘small boats’ crisis through its hard Brexit policies.

New report 'Sea Change on Border Control' shows that "the primary factor behind small boat crossings is the UK's lacking a returns agreement with the EU. This was a consequence of the UK's Brexit deal".

Thom Brooks: Government is repeating same old lines about stopping boats, unable to acknowledge failure of Brexit deal.

This week marks the third anniversary of Brexit. While for some it’s a cause to celebrate or say, “I told you so”, for European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) citizens and their families falling through the cracks of the Home Office system, it is cause for concern.

Probably not the anniversary present the government was hoping to offer the public.

Record numbers of people are moving to the UK even as the pro-Brexit government promises to crack down on immigration. Roughly 50,000 EU citizens left the UK over a one-year period, while 331,000 non-EU citizens arrived.

The consequences of ending the free movement of people between Britain and the EU are becoming painfully clear.

Brexit barriers are having a significant impact on North East small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), hitting their exports as they struggle with regulations and red tape, a new report this week reveals. The region’s universities are another sector badly hit...

Interesting new analysis published this week by UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE) considers how the post-Brexit immigration system has impacted the UK labour market in the two years since its introduction.

We're more than a quarter of a million employees short.

The OBR forecast that Brexit would cost the UK economy 4% of GDP now looks ridiculously optimistic as the damage mounts.

System working ‘broadly as Leave advocates promised’, say think tanks’ report. / Post-Brexit immigration rules have led to a shortfall of around 330,000 workers in the UK and had helped fuel inflation, according to top economists.

Mayor to use set-piece Mansion House speech to call for reformed relationship with Europe. / L ondon should be able to set its own immigration rules to ensure there are enough skilled workers to run essential services, according to Sadiq Khan.

If inflation stays high, will the PM be honest enough to agree with the Bank of England that leaving the EU is partly to blame?

A number of factors, including leaving the EU, are playing a part even as overall net migration to the UK - much of it to London - has hit a record high.