System working ‘broadly as Leave advocates promised’, say think tanks’ report. / Post-Brexit immigration rules have led to a shortfall of around 330,000 workers in the UK and had helped fuel inflation, according to top economists.

A RECORD 78 per cent of UK firms attempting to recruit faced difficulties in finding staff in the first quarter, a survey by British Chambers of Commerce shows.

Manufacturing organisation Make UK said the sector is battling to fill 95,000 vacancies.

The government has announced a major climbdown over its Brexit plans to remove EU laws from British statue books by the end of the year.

THE SCOTTISH Government has welcomed No 10's decision to ditch its planned Brexit “bonfire" of EU laws.

Britain’s bonfire of European Union laws has been reduced to embers.