The global outlook is optimistic, but Britain could fall further behind | The Times
“Indeed, in what is described one of the most shocking charts they’ve encountered in the past year, Ian Harnett and David Bowers of Absolute Strategy Research point to the most recent CBI quarterly trend survey that shows UK labour shortages at levels last seen in the 1970s. More worrying, the biggest shortages are in unskilled labour, driven by both Covid and Brexit.”