GB News fans were enraged after the channel shared an update on ‘visa street’ – a place in Harrow where 27 businesses have brought as many as 84 migrants into the country on skilled worker visas over the last five years alone. National reporter Charlie Peters shared the update as he visited the street.

He asked one worker why the businesses are not “looking to hire British or local people for these jobs”. They replied: “We do have local people as well.” He then hit back: “As well… but you’ve also hired foreigners to work at a chicken shop on skilled worker visas. People might be wondering, is it skilled work, working in a chicken shop?” She answered: “Local people don’t want to work in chicken shops, I think that’s why.” She then added that they are “happy” that people with the visas are allowed to work in such places.

Another worker shared that he liked to hire mainly Nepalese people and when asked why he doesn’t want to hire British people, he replied: “We want to bring the people, you know? The people that want to come to the UK, England, and settle here in ‘dream land’.”

Charlie then explained that those with a visa can also “bring in their whole family as well.” He said: “A skilled visa doesn’t just mean you can bring in a worker, it means you can bring in your whole family as well.

“On this one stretch in Harrow, that could mean up to 350 migrants coming into Britain.”

Since June 2024, to get a skilled worker visa, the job you are doing needs to pay at least £41,700 with some exceptions.

However, many of the businesses on ‘visa street’ hired workers before the changes meaning that many are working in shops and beauty services.

Charlie noted that sales and retail assistants, cashiers, hairdressers and barbers and beauticians are not supposed to be eligible for the scheme as per the Home Office’s official list of occupations that qualify.

However, many have slipped through the net due to rule changes and oversight.

On Twitter, one fan fumed: “All 27 businesses need to be closed, and the owners, along with the migrants, need to be deported.” Another echoed: “UK needs migration.”