UK studying annual levy on skilled EU workers, minister says

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. Immigration minister Robert Goodwill told a parliamentary committee that such a levy was due to come into force in April for non-EU workers, and the government was studying the idea of extending it to skilled EU workers.