LONDON (Reuters) -Britain will ease the routes to bring high-skilled workers into the country, Finance Minister Rachel Reeves said on Tuesday, contrasting the UK as a place open for business with U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to hike fees for visas.
Trump on Friday announced a steep hike in the cost of the H1-B visa programme for skilled workers, long a recruitment pathway for tech firms.
Reeves told an audience at the opening of UK fintech firm Revolut’s new headquarters in London that unlike Trump who had announced his government “will make it harder to bring talent to the U.S., we want to make it easier to bring talent”.
Global companies such as banks say London’s success as a financial centre depends in part on an openness to attracting high-skilled workers.
(Reporting by Tommy Reggiori WilkesEditing by Peter Graff)
