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Another potential contender for the Labour leadership, Wes Streeting, has used an article in the Financial Times to argue that the UK should attract more leading scientists and engineers. The former health secretary writes that a “global talent programme” is needed to bring in 20,000 of the “best and brightest” over the next three years. He says “voters concerned with high migration aren’t so worried about tomorrow’s Nobel prize winner’s discovering the future here in Britain”.
