I believe the article mentioned investments going full speed towards automation for the industries that allow it and retire low-skilled and manual labor jobs for the rest of eternity.

I'm located in the US and they moved many of the LS/ML jobs overseas decades ago, so we can expect a consorted effort from the UK, US and AU kindly stating that selective immigration is in everyones best interest.

It may also be a guise to limit fallout from climate change migration, but that remains to be seen.