British builders need restrictions on EU workers like they need a hole in the head

By Blane Perrotton2018-10-04T06:00:00

Contingency plans will be essential if the rules trigger a Brexodus of European workers – and key to this will be a campaign to tempt more young Britons into pursuing a career in construction

The see-sawing is settling back into stagnation – and the biggest casualty has been confidence.

2018 has seen the construction sector by turns frozen solid and heated into a brief summer boom as pent-up demand fought its way to the surface. Now it has returned to its awkward holding pattern of two steps forward, one step back.

If the supply of European workers is interrupted it could turn the existing skills crisis into a catastrophe

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