of refugees here in the uk, a group of more than 45 large businesses is continuing to press the government to make it easier for those driven out by russia s invasion to come to the country. marks & spencer, asos and vodafone are among some of the firms involved. the initiative is being led by british entrepreneur emma sinclair, the chief executive of enterprise alumni. make uk represents some of those companies wanting to get involved and we re now joined by their director of policy verity davidge. tell us a little bit more about the springing of many businesses of whom we know extremely well, come on uk government if you let them in, you can give them jobs.- government if you let them in, you can give them jobs. you can give them “obs. make uk and its members you can give themjobs. make uk and its members continue - you can give themjobs. make uk and its members continue to be i and its members continue to be shocked and saddened by events and situations we have seen and ukrain
to be dealt with. now actually inflation can partly deal with that over the long term, but of course inflation has very many negative consequences of a knock on consequences for people on fixed income in the uk, so he can t keep borrowing all the time, but nevertheless he does have more room to play with but i would expect a focus on the headlines, rather than making huge differences to public finances good business is moving quickly to offerjobs to ukrainian refugees when they start to arrive in the uk. a group of more than 200 large businesses is pressing the government to make it easier for those driven out by russia s invasion to come to britain to work. marks & spencer, asos, lush and recruitment giant robert walters are some of the firms involved. the initiative is being led by british entrepreneur emma sinclair, the chief executive of enterprise alumni, who isjoining me now.
The department which launched the Britain s Homes for Ukraine initiative yesterday, said the number of Britons willing to open up their homes to Ukrainians had skyrocketed
Fashion brands globally are rallying to provide long-term, meaningful employment for fleeing Ukrainians. It’s laudable – and could offer lessons to be replicated for other refugees.
Gareth and Gemma Porter from Dover are planning to adapt their home for wheelchair-user Roman Mokhnenko ahead of his arrival with sister Roxy, 22, her partner and mother.