Right now there are 1.3m job vacancies in the UK – the highest number since comparable figures began being recorded in 2001. That is a 62 per cent increase in job vacancies since the pandemic.

Following Brext, there are now the same number of job vacancies in the UK as there are unemployed people, only the second time in history that this has ever happened.

As a result, the UK is set for the slowest growth out of the G7 world’s richest nations, according to the IMF, expected to be just 0.5 per cent in 2023 compared with the 2.3 per cent previously forecast only in April.

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Philipp Joeinig, boss of Menzies Aviation, which provides check-in and baggage handling services to major airlines, said the staff shortages crippling the industry were ‘predictable and preventable’.

He added a recruitment crisis had been sparked by Brexit and aviation workers should now be added to the shortage occupation list to alleviate pressure.

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