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Sunak says he will open UK borders to world’s best talentv

Prime ministerial hopeful says UK should be a “beacon of talent for best and brightest”

Tory leadership hopeful Rishi Sunak has pledged to create a visa system that attracts the “best and the brightest” from around the world if he becomes prime minister.

Speaking at the latest leadership hustings event in Eastbourne on 5 August, the ex-chancellor said access to talent was a “limiting factor” for companies looking to scale up in the UK.

“We’ve got to have a visa system that attracts the best and the brightest from all around the world because if you look at those companies… over half of them have a founder that wasn’t actually born here in the UK,” he told Conservative Party members.

“So yes, I want to clamp down on illegal migration. Yes, I want to control our borders. But if we’re going to grow our economy we need to be a beacon of talent for the best and the brightest in the world.”

Sunak added: “We’ve got to make sure we’re training young people; giving them all the routes that they need not just universities but apprenticeships too, other short courses. Because it’s not just about degree.”

Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss are bidding to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister after the pair emerged in second and first place respectively in the final ballot of Conservative MPs. The winner is expected to be announced on 5 September, following a ballot of Conservative Party members.

‘Best and brightest’

Asked what changes he would make to the immigration system in another recent leadership debate on 4 August, Sunak told members: “I want to be pragmatic about this. I want to make sure that we are also supporting our economy to grow.

“And that means having an immigration system that actually welcomes the best and the brightest from around the world because if we want to grow our economy, if we want people here who are going to set up companies of the future who are going to come and research in our universities, who are going to come and work at some of our fastest-growing companies, we want to have a visa regime that makes us the best place in the world for all those people to come.”

His comments follow various attempts of Boris Johnson’s government to shake up the visa system and to attract researchers from around the world.

“I started reforming the system as chancellor," Sunak said, "and as prime minister I want to finish the job so that the best and the brightest wherever they are around the world—America, India, Brazil, wherever—they think: ‘huh, the UK is the place I want to come’ because if we can attract them here it’s going to be good for all of us, it’s going to be good for the economy and that’s something I want to deliver.”

In February 2020 the government introduced a Global Talent Visa, a UK immigration category for “talented and promising” academics wishing to work in the UK.

And in May 2021 the government opened up a streamlined route through the scheme for prize winners from across science, humanities, engineering, the arts and digital technology. However, only a single scientists came into the UK via that route in the first year since its launch, according to New Scientist magazine.

Climate change

Elsewhere at the hustings event, Sunak said he was “passionate” about tackling climate change and environmental problems.

But he said he wanted the UK to achieve its net-zero target “in a measured way”.

“There is no point in us racing there harder and faster than any other country because that will both impoverish us and lose people’s support on the journey and I don’t want that.

“The way we are going to solve that problem is not by getting people to give up all the things they love, it’s not about putting up all their bills it’s about innovation…it’s about building that innovation economy of the future where our scientists, our researchers, our entrepreneurial companies are creating the solutions to the problem.

“Whether it’s a new generation of small modular reactors that we can not only use here but we can export around the world. Whether it’s energy storage, whether it’s better use of our environmental agricultural land.”


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