YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU TO..BUILD STUFF

Britain short of a million skilled tradesmen, women and labourers

- WILL STONE

BRITAIN urgently requires a million more brickies, sparkies, plumbers, carpenters plus other tradesmen and women.

An "alarming" shortage of skilled labourers is flagged up by new figures from the UK Trade Skills Index.

The country faces being 937,000 skilled grafters short by 2032 - unless more folk learn key jobs.

Blame is being put on an exodus of foreign labourers post-Brexit and an ageing workforce, according to the figures from research group Capital Economics.