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Britain is losing the war for real talent

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The UK has some of the best career opportunities in the world with incredible cities.

But when I speak to friends abroad about why they don’t want to move back they point to the enormous living costs, namely housing and childcare, average salaries and worse quality of life.

Britain is losing the war for real talent, with one Labour donor telling me there needs to be more incentive for skilled foreign professionals to move over here.

There has been a divide between Trump ’s base and his recent tech allies over the future of H1-B visas .

Trump last week said he supported “very competent people” coming into the country.

Musk has credited the scheme with attracting critical people’ to build tech companies such as SpaceX and Tesla .