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'A hotel without linen is not a hotel'
06/09/2021
Lilliput Services in Belfast is one of the unsung companies without which the UK's hotel industry could not exist.
The EU referendum result spurred a life-changing move to a better standard of living for these couples and families
A Brexit-related exodus of EU workers from Suffolk has seen restaurants close, business advisors warned today.
Almost a third of dentists from Europe are considering leaving the UK in the next few years.
ANGUS Robertson has said that Brexit is the "biggest single factor" in the UK's supply chain crisis.
Dr Chaand Nagpaul tells i a no deal Brexit would be disastrous, leading to potentially thousands of EU doctors leaving the service.
With the xenophobic fervour they believe Has awakened In The UK ‘Brexit refugees’, who have chosen to leave Britain for Ireland, talk to Simon Carswell.
Dr Philippa Whitford, MP and eminent breast cancer surgeon, shares her concerns for the future of our NHS following Brexit. Recorded in front of a live audience at Arran High School Theatre on Friday 13th September 2019.
High-earning financiers have been abandoning London and moving to Frankfurt, Paris and Milan. That’s worrisome for the U.K. financial capital.
CAUSEWAY Coast and Glens councillors have been told international travellers may not bother crossing the border into Northern Ireland when controls are introduced next year. / Tourism NI chief John McGrillen was outlining the consequences of Brexit during a Q&A session following an online address to the chamber last Tuesday.
The U.K. wants to issue visas for truckers to ease a shortage that’s led to gasoline stations running dry and hit food supply chains. The hard part could be persuading drivers from eastern Europe, the biggest pool of labor in recent years, to come back.
Oxford and Cambridge universities, once given more than £130m a year in total by European research programmes, are now getting £1m annually between them.
A growing number of EU nationals working in the National Health Service are leaving England as a consequence of the referendum on British membership in the EU.
BRITONS are turning to Queensland to escape the Brexit blues, with new figures showing a spike in the number of UK property seekers searching for a piece of paradise in the sunshine state.
GDC research finds that eight in 10 of EEA-qualified dental professionals in UK are intending to leave because of uncertainty.
The number of European Union nationals who are living in the UK has fallen dramatically, figures show today.
The country’s decision to leave the European Union has left many in the local tech community questioning the place of the U.K. — and their own — in the global digital economy.
The UK Government has confirmed that it will withdraw from Euratom. But what does Euratom actually do? And what will happen when the UK leaves?
A report from the Royal Bank of Scotland shows a near-record high number of vacancies with plummeting applicants.
Brexit Ignites the ‘Brexodus’
08/04/2016
The United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union—“Brexit”—has inspired a global exodus of sorts, sparking interest in second passports in nations like Ireland and economic citizenship and residency programs in Cyprus and Malta.
Despite repeated assurances that the government understood the need for frictionless travel after Brexit, hugely increased bureaucracy and costs look set to devastate the present – and the future – of musicians and music-making in the UK
Brexit is driving Europeans out of UK
24/05/2021
Nearly five months after Britain’s official departure from the European Union (EU) following the end of the Brexit transition period, many EU citizens in Britain are considering leaving the country amid rising concerns over their status.
Dentists say staff have returned to their home countries in Europe after Brexit, and there are delays in bringing in new dentists from overseas.
Brexit Opportunities Abound – Part 2
17/02/2022
Continuing the letter to Jacob Rees-Mogg, reminding him – he seems to need reminding – of the many new opportunities created by Brexit.
STAFF shortages in the health and care sector are pushing the NHS to breaking point – and they are in part the result of a “reckless” and “cynical” decision by the UK Government to push through a hard Brexit in the midst of a pandemic.
Nobel prize winner leaves as reality of disconnecting from EU funding network sets in. / A no-deal Brexit looks set to undermine the UK’s position as a world leader in international research and is already starting to cause damage according to a number of prominent scientists working in Britain.
At least 16 recipients of prestigious ERC grants making plans to reject UK offer and move their labs abroad.
House of lords says ‘significant challenges remain’ for the financial services sector.
Brexit uncertainty and migration decisions spark brain drain concerns - University of Oxford
03/08/2020
Brexit has sparked major changes in migration decisions, equivalent to the impact of a serious economic or political crisis, according to a pioneering joint study between the Oxford-in-Berlin research partnership and the WZB Social Sciences Center Berlin.
One in three young people (16 to 35) are considering leaving the UK to work in another European country due to uncertainty around Brexit as well as the Covid-19 pandemic
Now that hiring has made a comeback in London banking circles, some recruiters are complaining of a new phenomenon: too little talent.
Brexit: UK music industry will ‘eventually die’ unless artists get access to EU, Mercury Prize winner says
07/02/2024
The UK music industry may “shrivel and eventually die” unless the government gives musicians more support following Brexit, a Mercury Prize-winning band has told NationalWorld.
Brexodus: Where have all the workers gone?
26/01/2023
The consequences of ending the free movement of people between Britain and the EU are becoming painfully clear.
Talks over the Horizon Europe funding programme have been stalled until other Brexit-related disagreements are resolved.
Scientists have warned the UK’s prominence in the world research field is at risk of “brain drain” after concerns for EU research funding will be dropped post-Brexit.
As London gradually unlocks, its hospitality sector is slowly waking up. / But there’s a familiar theme evident throughout this enormous industry: thousands of Europeans who used to work here have moved on.
British academics quitting UK over Brexit
28/09/2021
Some British scholars are following in their European peers’ footsteps in a bid to improve their research opportunities overseas
Number of Brits moving to the continent has spiked since Brexit.
More and more Brits are leaving the Brexit chaos behind -- and seeking their fortunes in France. But their home nation’s exit from the European Union means they now face a plethora of bureaucratic hurdles.
Nicholas Walton gives up leadership of €2.8m pan-European research after dispute over Northern Ireland protocol.
Outward migration also rises significantly, with emigrants prepared to take more risks.
London is losing talent as financial markets fragment following Brexit, according to one the most prominent bankers at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Sebastian Przetakowski, who has worked in the industry in the UK for almost two decades, said he is currently fully booked up until next year and has to turn down work because he can no longer find bricklayers and carpenters.
Costa del Covid: Millennials swap UK drizzle to work remotely in Spain and gain post-Brexit rights
16/05/2021
Rise in home working has led to people swapping small city flats for Spanish villas during the pandemic. / Mr Dell also says many younger people are moving to Spain to seek residency in a European State and regaining the rights they enjoyed on the continent before Brexit.
The UK CVO has confirmed an 11% shortfall in existing UK vet numbers and an estimated 200% increase in the need for certification for food exports in the run-up to Brexit.
Dame Hilary Mantel has said she is intending to take Irish citizenship to “become a European again” and escape the “shame” of living under the current government.
Ian Wright, who leads the Food and Drink Federation, said that things are going to get worse before they get better.
Dentists near me: Lack of dentists in Barnsley partially down to Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit
01/12/2021
“We’ve also lost all the EU dentists with Brexit, and that’s made a big difference,” said Ms Naylor.
Design schools will "hit the wall" due to Brexit, warns The Council for Higher Education in Art & Design
19/12/2016
The Brexit vote has led to a "brain drain" of teaching staff and a drop in student numbers at the UK's architecture and design institutes, according to a body representing creative higher education establishments, which warns that universities will be forced to shut down.
Dezeen survey finds 84 per cent of UK architecture studios want to reverse Brexit "catastrophe"
26/01/2023
Nine in 10 UK architecture studios feel Brexit has had a negative impact on them, exclusive Dezeen research has found. / Three years on from the UK's departure from the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020, Dezeen conducted a survey of 50 architecture studios asking about their experiences of working post-Brexit.
EMA cuts services amid Brexit staff exodus
06/08/2018
Europe’s medicines regulator has said it is temporarily cutting services as it will lose at least 30% of its staff as it relocates to Amsterdam during Brexit.
Brexit has been blamed for an increasing number of British people emigrating to go live in continental Europe - the vast majority of whom are of working age. / An estimated 84,000 UK citizens emigrated to the EU in 2019, the latest figures show.
'I want banks, talents, researchers, academics'.
EU academics are doing their research… and they don’t like the look of post-Brexit Britain
14/07/2021
Attracting academics from the EU to the UK has become challenging because of #Brexit – and it’s vital we adapt to avoid getting left behind in science and technology.
More than 100 grants previously approved for applicants in Britain have been scrapped amid a continuing dispute over the UK’s refusal to fully implement trade arrangements made when the country left the European Union.
EU citizens who abandoned Britain after Brexit tell us their motives for leaving.
EU Doctors Quit Britain as Brexit Looms
03/12/2018
An exodus of medical specialists is putting new strains on the U.K.’s National Health Service. / Pioneering transplant surgeon Paolo Muiesan is returning to Italy after about 1,000 operations and 26 years in the U.K. The reason, he says, is Brexit.
THE UK’s decision to quit the EU continues to deepen the NHS staffing crisis with local hospitals reporting a ‘significant’ and ‘unexpected’ increase in the number of EU nurses leaving their posts in March.
Fewer scholars from Italy, Germany, France and Netherlands working in British universities, says report.
Farmers begin culling pigs as Britain’s labour shortage, exacerbated by Brexit, hits food processing plants
04/10/2021
First it was a lack of truck drivers that crippled gas stations. Now Britain is facing a shortage of food processing workers that’s become so severe farmers have started culling 120,000 pigs.
Leading figures in the livestock industry say that the animals face being killed and burned because Priti Patel has failed to include the butchers on a list of shortage occupations.
The National Pig Association has said that healthy animals are being destroyed following the exodus of EU workers as there are not enough people employed in slaughterhouses.
If your dreams involve a workplace in which your skills are in demand, and you still want to enjoy the benefits of being a part of the EU, we’re just a cheap flight away
In a video from 2019, Farage says passionately that the food shortages threat is "Project Fear" and "should be utterly, completely, totally, disregarded.”
My daughter is right: she should raise her children in Germany rather than Boris Johnson’s increasingly debased Britain.
Gas stations across Great Britain are running dry due to a post-Brexit shortage of truck drivers. The government announced a plan to issue 5,000 temporary visas for truckers.
I was very much in love with Britain. My first encounter with the country, at the turn of the century, opened my eyes to a multicultural, appealing environment. Now I am leaving.
Children's book illustrator Axel Scheffler has hit out at Brexit as he picked up the illustrator of the year prize at the British Book Awards. German-born Scheffler is best known for his work on Julia Donaldson's books, including The Gruffalo series.
Guy Hands said the business outlook and investment case for the UK is only getting worse and that the country needs to reforge trading ties with the European Union to stop the rot.
The financier and former Tory donor says leaving the EU was a plan by the rich to make themselves richer and the poor poorer.
Health minister can’t answer how many NHS staff have left because of Brexit in excruciating interview
05/01/2022
A government minister was unable to answer how many NHS staff have left the country due to Brexit in an embarassing interview on Wednesday morning.
Brexit and university cutbacks are fuelling a crisis in recruitment of skilled workers.
UKHospitality estimates that shortages are suppressing economic activity in hospitality alone by £22bn - with the pandemic hangover and Brexit adding to an existing problem of finding skilled - and even unskilled - staff.
High cost of visas and other charges is worsening NHS staffing crisis, warn medics.
Brexit horror stories – like the ex-mayor of Ipswich denied citizenship – remind me why we’ve returned to the Netherlands.
Nurses and midwives trained in India outnumbered their Filipino counterparts in the U.K. for the first time this year, as Asian workers fill vacancies in sectors from health care to agriculture seven years after Brexit triggered an exodus of EU citizens, recent figures show.
Fast-forward nine years of dedication to his academic involvement in the UK, the university reader, a top rank in Britain’s academic system, felt the EU referendum announcement in 2016 was “an incredible regression in British political and cultural life”.
I made a career, met my husband and had my children here. But things feel so bleak that we feel we have no other choice but to leave.
Japan's richest man has warned that Brexit is "practically impossible" and could take the United Kingdom back to the economic stagnation of the 1970s when the country was often described as the "sick man of Europe."
The Vice-Chancellor says failure to secure associate membership of Horizon Europe could do long term damage to UK universities.
Now that the United Kingdom has officially been out of the European Union for well over two years, many people, particularly the younger generation, have been seriously considering their position on this tiny sceptred isle, and have started to look further afield as the once abundant amount of opportunities dries up in front of our very eyes.
Brexit is contributing to a serious brain drain in UK universities, say the Liberal Democrats, after it emerged that almost 11,000 EU academics had left since the 2016 referendum.
When I'm in France, the reactions I get from French people range from complete indifference to Brexit, through to slight feelings of sadness and pity at the UK’s self-imposed economic and social harm. In Italy, the sadness over Brexit is even more marked, and in this video, I’ll be looking at an article in Italian newspaper La Repubblica this week about the latest impact of Brexit.
London Leaders' Letter to David Davis: Brexit Trade-Offs a False and Damaging Choice for London & UK
17/07/2017
A broad coalition of London leaders have called on Government to recognise the damage that the wrong Brexit deal could inflict on the city.
A London headteacher has blamed Brexit after her primary school was forced to close because it lost half of its pupils.
Move over Cornwall, more Brits than ever are making the move to West Cork.
"Andrew, you and I know that in 2016 there weren't shortages in the supermarkets, there wasn't fuel rationing" Lord Andrew Adonis told Andrew Castle.
Four international scientists explain how a grant debacle stemming from Brexit has affected their research and career plans. / UK science suffered a significant setback in June, when the European Research Council (ERC) confirmed that 143 UK-based researchers would forfeit their prestigious ERC grants unless they relocated to a country in the European Union.
Billionaire media mogul says it is ‘hard to understand why a country doing so well wanted to ruin it’.
Mick Jagger says Brexit ‘has not been a success’ for UK touring industry: ‘It’s a nightmare’
22/05/2022
‘We’ve isolated ourselves, and that sounds good to some, but it’s an ideology more than a practicality,’ musician said.
NHS winter chaos warning from Lib Dems as more than 11,000 EU workers leave UK since referendum
24/11/2019
Figures compiled by the Liberal Democrats found that over 3,250 NHS staff from the EU have left the health service so far this year.
Crisis has led to 500% increase in Britons taking up citizenship in an EU state
Universities UK says 80% of members very concerned, with some considering stockpiling.
Our politicians won’t mention the B-word – but Brexit has made Britain’s economic crisis worse
17/05/2022
Our silence over the issue is compounding the problem.
Searches for foreign jobs surged 25% immediately after last week’s General Election exit poll was published, according to new data from the world’s largest job site, Indeed.
FARMERS in Oxfordshire have revealed they are struggling to cope with a Brexodus of migrant workers.
Britain is facing a post-Brexit “exodus of EU waiters and baristas” with "prospective foreign workers are shunning the UK because of tighter visa rules and higher entry costs post-Brexit.”
The UK suffered an outflow of nearly 1,300 scientists in 2020, having been a net importer of academics in 2015, the year before the Brexit vote to leave the EU, OECD data shows.
Emma Pollet accuses Theresa May of ignoring EU citizens married to Britons as couple prepare to move to Scandinavia.
IT specialist from former Yugoslavia says he didn’t want to be ‘trapped on an island descending into mindless tribalism’. / A tech developer with a successful London e-learning company has said he has already quit Britain after 10 high-flying years because of the uncertainty and “mindless tribalism” caused by Brexit.
Maybe it’s time for the next Prime Minister to admit that immigration is not just essential, it’s desirable.
The Brexit fallout
13/07/2023
Brexit was unquestionably a disaster for the UK’s amusement and gaming industry, said the trade personalities that we asked. / “For our business it was a catastrophe. We lost most of our export trade almost overnight"
Shortages in the labour market, along with the vacancies in the health service, hospitality industry and agriculture, are the living evidence of this self-inflicted act
The Brexit effect is easy to see in UK universities. A continuing failure to agree UK association with the Horizon Europe research programme has put eligibility to conduct EU-funded research in the UK in a precarious position, undermining international collaborations and prompting some academics to relocate to the mainland.
How has the recruitment of UK-based teachers by international schools in Europe been affected by Brexit?
Developers and publishers discuss the challenges they face in securing talent from the Continent
Theresa May's strict immigration rules are keeping the numbers down – by driving British citizens out
Net migration figures are down by 49,000, but 54,000 extra British citizens chose to leave the UK. Is the Prime Minister really getting it right on migration?
Around a third of dentists who qualified in Europe but who currently work in the UK say they are considering leaving the UK, largely because of Brexit.
BREXIT is being blamed for a fall in the number of NHS dentists working in Scotland.
Thousands of EU academics left posts at leading British universities after Brexit vote, analysis finds
13/08/2019
The Russell Group calls on Boris Johnson to provide certainty to staff to prevent exodus. / Thousands of EU academics left their posts at Britain’s most prestigious universities in the year after the Brexit vote – an 11 per cent rise on the year before, analysis shows.
Nearly a hundred highly paid bankers left Britain ahead of its departure from the European Union, the bloc's banking watchdog said on Wednesday, the latest confirmation of how Brexit has reshaped Europe's financial sector and its tax base.
The prime minister’s Brexit policy is sacrificing the UK’s science reputation – and billions of pounds in EU grants.
The UK could face a shortage of turkeys in the run up to Christmas as a specialist supplier blamed the crisis "100%" on Brexit.
The networking website LinkedIn said its database shows more of its members left the U.K. for the European Union than arrived over the past year after the coronavirus and Brexit sent shock waves through the labor market.
UK at risk of 'brain drain' as scientists leave Britain to avoid losing EU research funding
09/10/2022
Research is at risk due to a "significant brain drain" as the industry's brightest talents relocate overseas in the wake of Brexit. / A total of 22 UK-based scientists have now decided to leave Britain rather than lose their EU research funding, as uncertainty continues around the future of Research and Development (R&D) support post-Brexit.
Numbers of European Union-born professionals working in the UK’s skilled construction and building trade dropped off by 46% in 2019.
UK faces ‘brain drain of educated British citizens’ as EU migration rises 30% after Brexit, study shows
04/08/2020
Migration from UK to Europe states averaged 56,832 people per year from 2008-15, but climbed to 73,642 a year from 2016-18.
Thousands of British petrol stations ran out of fuel due to panic buying on Monday, after days of long queues at pumps caused by the lorry driver shortage. Analysts say that, in addition to Covid, the speed of the Brexit process bears a lot of responsibility for the crisis...
Some of the brightest scientific minds are leaving the UK, as they lose access to European funding in the wake of Brexit, SkyNews has found.
Nineteen researchers to move to EU institutions while 115 forfeit grants as they stay in Britain.
The UK is set to lose more millionaires than Russia in 2023, new analysis shows.
Traditional Farm Fresh Turkey Association chair warns people are ‘missing whole host of workforce’.
We don't want to become a musical Galapagos, with our musicians locked out of the cultural partnership which is so important for creative development."
18/11/2021
"We don't want to become a musical Galapagos, with our musicians locked out of the cultural partnership which is so important for creative development." - @HarrietHarman at today's Westminster Hall debate on visas for musicians touring in the EU.
A Welsh bus company has warned that a dearth of drivers is causing problems for the industry.
For some of the record number of Britons seeking Irish passports, the move will be permanent.
Curators who left the UK after the referendum took with them experience that is reshaping their cities’ art scenes.
‘I’ve lost £40,000 already’ – survey finds Brexit red tape is crippling touring musicians
26/05/2021
Faced with the titanic costs of post-Brexit visas and carnets, UK musicians warn they are being left with no option but to relocate to Europe or quit the music industry altogether.
A significant number of EU citizens believe Brexit has made Britain "unrecognisable", a new study found.
Kevin Foster made the remarks a week before the deadline for the EU settlement scheme.
They miss the trees, the curry, the friends … but most of all, they miss feeling the UK was somewhere they could call home.
“Drivers shortage is just the beginning, the warehouse operators will be the next to leave.”
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