We must make Britain the best place to build companies for the world’s best talent

You will hear a lot of nonsense these days about the “British jobs of the British people”, as if talents stop in Dover and genius that require a passport. I am here to tell you – additional, flowers, and perhaps even in a provocative way – if we continue in this way, the only thing that we will export is our future.

Because this is the cold and unrecognized truth: some of the best companies in Britain at the present time have not started by Blokes from Bromley or LASSES from LouchBorough. They have been built – wonderfully, brilliantly – by immigrants. Entrepreneurs who came here with the absence of a tie in the old school, there is no affiliation from Oxford College, not a seat in Garik. Just vision, endurance, and burning need to build something better.

Take a revolution, the digital bank that made high street banking services look like a phone call. Nikolai Storonski (in the photo), born in Russia and teaching him in physics and physics, started it a revolution through the cortical layers of traditional financing such as a saw across the fat. Or Monzo – built with the help of a multicultural team whose mission was not British traditions, but rather global innovation.

Then there are eleven AI Voice Technology that moved from scratch to the speed of warp in a lesser time, which requires HMRC to respond to a phone call. Polish Dakovsky, the Polish, and Matti Stanisowski, who is-is not from Gildford. They build the future of the media from a country that still argue around radio 4.

And synthesia. God bless it. The start starting is very great, even the Americans feel jealous. Amnesty International Video Platform is used by companies all over the world – by a team of immigrant founders whose collective ambition makes Parliament’s homes look like a village. They did not come here for the weather or late trains. They came here to build something. Thank God they did.

Now, imagine for a moment if we all tell them to be expelled on Passport Control. “Sorry, my friend, I cannot allow you to enter. We have a boy in Swindon with a raspberry and a dream.” Fazzam, right? But this is the direction in which we are drifting. A little red tape here, there is a little more speech about “restoring control” there – and suddenly, the United Kingdom becomes a nation a heritage instead of the invention center.

I do not say that British entrepreneurs do not deserve praise. They do – many of them are sexy. But if we want to really build a large economy in entrepreneurship, this is not related to geography. It is about gravity. The UK must become the center of gravity for the best minds in the world. The brightest thinkers. The most hungry founders. The dreamer is the most dreamer. Not only who were born in the sound of the bow bells.

We do not win the narrowing of the gate. We win by making the UK the best blood place on the ground to start a company. This means generous and smart visa. This means startups with real teeth. This means that investment channels that do not require your uncle to be in the House of Lords. This means – from the customs point of view – a culture that does not make fun of ambition or treat innovation like an embarrassing dinner guest.

If you ask me, the home office must deliver the platinum welcoming packages in Heathrow. “Welcome to Britain, here is an innovative visa, coffee, and directions to the closest common work space.” Let’s deal with entrepreneurs the way we deal with football players in the English Premier League: as indispensable as it provokes the entire game.

Instead, we get to know “restoring our country”, while most talented people on this planet quietly buy tickets in one direction to Berlin, Austin or Dubai.

Do you know what makes Silicon Valley what is it? Not only is an investment symbol and capital. It is the continuous flow of people who do not give a monkey around the current situation. Persons with dialects, ambition, and there is absolutely no sense of quitting smoking. It looks familiar? You should. This is the same spirit that built the best startups in the UK.

However, despite all our history in trade, talents, empire and institutions, we seem to be now interested in gathering ourselves from calling on it. It is short -sighted, self -defeat, and stupidity. Like separating your router because the Internet is “a little foreign”.

The truth is that we are in the global armament race for innovation. Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, climate technology – all of this moves quickly warp. If we want to be in the room where it happens, we need to open the door.

Not, this is not related to immigration reverse an opportunity. It is about migration like an opportunity. About the realization that talent is our last competitive advantage in a world in which supply chains are broken, policy is polarized, and interest rates are formed Quick.

So let’s be bold. Let’s be magnet for ambition. Let’s stop pretending that bone is wearing a specific commercial passport and begins to build Britain to every world creator: “Yes. Here.”

Because if we do not, the revolution and the eleven of the future will not be British. They will be Belgian. Or Bali. Or its headquarters in Boston.

We will leave here, proud of and poor people, we wonder why all our best ideas come now with the title of return in Zurich.