UK studying annual levy on skilled EU workers, minister says

By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is 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, a junior minister said on Wednesday. The suggestion drew immediate condemnation from a prominent employers' group, the opposition Liberal Democrats and the European parliament's point man on Brexit. Immigration minister Robert Goodwill told a parliamentary committee that su