11-01-2017 18:01 via uk.news.yahoo.com

PM May distances herself from immigration skills levy row

By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May distanced herself on Wednesday from remarks by a junior minister who had suggested Britain was considering introducing an annual 1,000-pound ($1,200) "immigration skills charge" after Brexit on every skilled worker from an EU member state recruited by a British employer. The idea had drawn sharp condemnation from a prominent employers' group, the opposition Liberal Democrats and the European Parliament's point man on Brexit. Immigr
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