
Johnson said, “We are going to deal with the underlying issues of our economy and society - the problems that no government has had the guts to tackle, the long-term structural weaknesses in the U.K. In a speech to a cheering crowd at his Conservative Party’s annual conference, Mr. He barely mentioned the spate of fuel and food shortages that have afflicted the country in recent weeks, characterizing them as mainly the consequence of a rapidly recovering economy in transition. Johnson sketched a vision of Britain on the cusp of change. Projecting sunny optimism but offering few details, Mr. MANCHESTER, England - Declaring that Britain would not return to the “broken model” of the past, Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed on Wednesday to engineer a radical transformation of the country’s economy to a future defined by highly skilled workers earning higher wages.

That is the direction in which this country is going now, towards a high-wage, high-skill, high-productivity and yes, thereby a low-tax economy, that is what the people of this country need and deserve. The answer is to control immigration, to allow people of talent to come to this country, but not to use immigration as an excuse for failure to invest in people, in skills and in the equipment, the facilities, the machinery. And the answer to the present stresses and strains, which are mainly a function of growth and economic revival, is not to reach for that same old lever of uncontrolled immigration to keep wages low.

We are going to deal with the biggest underlying issues of our economy and society, the problems that no government has had the guts to tackle before, and I mean the long-term structural weaknesses in the U.K. would transition into an economy defined by high-skilled workers and higher wages. Transcript Boris Johnson Vows to Transform Britain’s Economy Speaking at the Conservative Party’s annual conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the U.K.
