Trade body demands special measures for Scottish immigration

The UK’s immigration system should be overhauled to make Scotland a more attractive place for people to work in an effort to boost the economy, incoming ministers have been told.

Scottish Financial Enterprise, the trade body, has published a series of demands of the next UK government to deliver “sustainable economic growth”.

A key part of this is urging the next prime minister and home secretary to “explore mechanisms to address the specific workforce needs of the Scottish economy through the immigration system”.

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This could include having a system tailored specifically to Scotland with incentives to attract people to live and work north of the border. The Times previously reported that Labour was