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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>By Gilbert Nyambabvu & Agencies<\/b><\/p>\n

THE number of Zimbabweans leaving for care and support jobs in the United Kingdom jumped 562 percent to more than 17,000 last year but the escape option may close as the Tory administration faces a huge political backlash over net migration.<\/p>\n

A government report released last Thursday showed that net migration reached a record 606,000 for 2022 representing a 24% increase on the previous year. Net migration is defined as the difference between immigration (those coming into a country) and emigration (those leaving).<\/p>\n

According to the new data, Zimbabwe was third behind India and Nigeria in terms of work visas granted in the health and social care sector. Some 17,421 Zimbabweans left the country for the UK last year, up 562% on the 2,630 recorded the previous year.<\/p>\n

The departures are blamed on an unrelenting economic crisis which has lasted two decades with a brief respite during the coalition administration.<\/p>\n

The health sector is among the critical sectors worst affected with some 4,000 Zimbabwean doctors and nurses having reportedly left service since 2001.<\/p>\n

Thousands more have now joined the doctors and nurses after the British government added \u2018care workers\u2019 and \u2018home carers\u2019 to its shortage occupation list for skilled workers forced by Brexit.<\/p>\n

The rush to leave and escape dire poverty has now seen even pastors signing up for the seven-week first-aid course run by Red Cross which makes it easier and faster to secure work as a care worker overseas.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe can\u2019t dance in front of the pulpit and hide our poverty. I don\u2019t feel bad for leaving my congregation,\u201d evangelical pastor Tinaye Tangwena, who is now based in Watford told Baptist Global News in an interview earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Silas Gatsheni, a Baptist pastor now working at a nursing home in Liverpool added; \u201cI\u2019m not shy to quit being a pastor, immigrate and become an elderly care worker in the UK.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know 10 Zimbabwe pastors who have arrived here in England to become care home workers in 2022. As the Bible says, it\u2019s an exodus.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the route could narrow for Zimbabweans and other nationalities going forward as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak\u2019s government faces a huge backlash from its own Tory MPs and the opposition of the surge in the number of people coming to live in the UK.<\/p>\n

After the data was released last Thursday, Tory legislators warned of voter anger and frustration at \u201cunsustainable\u201d levels of net migration.<\/p>\n

Opposition Labour\u2019s shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper upped the pressure, saying;<\/p>\n

Sunak vowed to bring the numbers down.<\/p>\n

\u201cNumbers are too high, it\u2019s as simple as that. And I want to bring them down,\u201d he said in a television interview.<\/p>\n

The Tory PM faces a difficult balancing act ahead of elections expected next year in which post-immigration policy is likely to be a key issue for voters.<\/p>\n

On the one hand he faces frustration from voters \u2013 most supporters of his Conservative party \u2013 who backed for Brexit in the 2016 referendum on the promise that it would bring down the high numbers of immigration.<\/p>\n

On the other hand the UK faces serious labour shortages in key economic sectors such as agriculture and healthcare after Europeans left the country due to Brexit.<\/p>\n

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