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I'd go earlier than TJ and say it was Ireland for nurses. It seemed to be a conveyor belt for them. Train in Dublin then to London (get hateful abuse) then onwards. Ireland was probably easily described as a developing nation then.
That was certainly my mum's route out of the real poverty of rural Tipperary. (I remember visiting my grandparents and my grandfather having to take the donkey and cart down for water.
It was struggling, but brexit was one of the biggest nails in the coffin. Along with COVID.TBF the car manufacturing industry in the UK was on it's arse a long time before brexit.
I know a lot of Eu based companies shifted manufacturing, design and engineering work out of the UK, not because they knew what Brexit would do to import/export, but because no one knew.
One bonus for me though, my passport only cost 120 quid since the overseas passport office has closed. Last time it was about three times that. Unfortunately, the krona has slipped sufficiently that its now 1600 sek, instead of the 1300 it would have been.