UK rejects ‘uncontrolled immigration’ despite labour shortages

PM Boris Johnson defends his country’s choice to leave the EU as a lack of workers threatens to upend the Christmas season.

The United Kingdom will not return to “uncontrolled immigration” to solve fuel, gas and food crises, officials have said, suggesting such strains were part of a period of post-Brexit adjustment.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his country’s choice to leave the European Union on Sunday, after shortages of foreign workers have sown disarray in some sectors of the economy.

“The way forward for our country is not to just pull the big lever marked uncontrolled immigration, and allow in huge numbers of people to do work,” Johnson told British broadcaster BBC at his Conservative Party’s conference.