Will British employers still be able to recruit as many non-European Union staff as they need in future?
The confirmation last week of tighter rules for non-EU hires, with a cap of 21,700 visas for 2011-2012, has only gone part-way to resolving the question.
Tension between business and government over skilled immigrant quotas is nothing new. But it reached new heights in June last year when home secretary Theresa May introduced an interim annual cap of 24,100 non-EU work visas. The move followed a Conservative election pledge to reduce annual net UK immigration to “tens of thousands” from more than 100,000 a year.
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