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British IT workers ‘crowded out’

British IT contractors claim they are struggling to get work because
large companies are using a government scheme to employ people from
overseas instead.

Firms are using intra-company transfer visas to move employees from
overseas bases – usually in India – to UK jobs.

BBC Radio 5 live was told people are brought to the UK to work on
government IT projects run by BT and Capgemini.

Both firms say they are operating within the law. The government said
it was tightening the rules on such visas.

The guiding principle behind immigration rules for skilled workers
coming to the UK, from outside the EU, is that an employer can only
hire an overseas worker if no-one in Britain can be found to do it.

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In the pages of the Kremlin’s secret diary, Pavel Stroilov discovers what Labour’s Soviet sympathisers said when they thought no one was listening

It is almost 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall — and still the truth keeps trickling out of Moscow. The Soviets, like the Nazis, were meticulous note-keepers and there is decades worth of material still to be uncovered. At first, only those who went through the filing cabinets could compile the untold stories of the USSR. But now that these records are being digitised, scrutinising them becomes a lot easier. And this is how I came across the extraordinary diaries of Anatoly Chernyaev.

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