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How London’s looming tech talent shortage could cripple our country. We need 300,000 more digital workers by 2020. Can we protect against this dire shortfall? It’s a Thursday night in Old Street, in a walled-off yard with a lurid red and yellow helter-skelter at its apex. A couple of hundred tech types of all shapes and sizes are swarming in and around stalls serving up face painting, free booze, fruity fro-yo and falafel. It’s a party, and it’s buzzing with the work-hard-play-harder type bees that make the London tech scene so special. It’s easy to float away on the quite intoxicating cloud of creativity, kookiness and commercial success of London’s tech scene. It feels like exciting things are happening in the capital - and indeed they are. But the trouble is that all the activity and adventure is fogging over a brewing thunder storm. We currently have 1.1 million IT specialists in the UK, but only half are employed in the digital sector, according to the same study.

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