“Britain’s top tradesman” has revealed to GB News exactly why he is leaving the UK.

Builder Martin Daly, 30, from Motherwell, was named Screwfix’s Top Tradesperson of the Year for inspiring young people to enter the trade – but he is now ditching Scotland for Switzerland.

“I’m not going there just to get more money,” he told Patrick Christys on Monday.

“It’s more just for a better quality of life – to wake up, know that your Government is looking after you.”

But he also offered a damning assessment of the options on offer to up-and-coming tradespeople in the UK.

In Britain, Mr Daly said, “no one can afford to take young people on”.

“I’ve had a few apprentices spread their wings. A few have gone to Australia, some have went out on their own,” he said. “It’s not that the younger generation don’t want to get into the trades, but there’s just not enough career paths and routes for them to go down.”

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