New poll shows 79% think trade deals with Australia and New Zealand are bad. / Just over half (52%) of farmers said Britain should join the EU and 70% of thought we should at least rejoin the single European market, rising to 85% in the case of those working in the ancillary industries.
70,000 pigs could be destroyed instead of being sold for meat as staff shortages hit crisis point
04/09/2021
‘There’s nowhere for the pigs to go and it could trigger the worst case scenario, where they are put down on the farm and taken away.’
The British meat industry is warning that hundreds of thousands of pigs may have to be culled within weeks unless the government issues more visas to allow slaughterers into the country.
The airlines asked for help from the government to ease their staff shortage situation, but were turned down.
ALISTER Jack has been told to apologise to the people of Scotland for the "unmitigated disaster" of Brexit as he faced angry MPs in the Commons.
Nearly 200,000 hospitality workers have left the UK since the pandemic, despite post-Brexit visa schemes introduced by the Government, according to Caterer.com.
Britain's leading employers are pushing the government to urgently increase funding to retrain workers and allow Europeans back into key sectors as supply chains buckle under the weight of COVID-19 and Brexit.
Talk at this week’s NFU conference will be alive with financial, labour and competition concerns.
Aviation chaos: We need to talk about Brexit
02/06/2022
Leaving the EU has subtracted staff from airlines and airports in two damaging ways
North Ayrshire MP Patricia Gibson has blamed Brexit after new figures revealed the shortage of European doctors in the NHS.
Brexit is going so well, the government now wants to undo some of its hardline policies. The Home Office is reportedly putting the groundwork in place to allow thousands of young workers from the EU and Switzerland to fill job vacancies in the UK.
Food processors in NI have been heavily dependent on the flow of workers from the EU, which has ended as a result of the UK's post-Brexit migration rules.
A “double whammy” of Covid-19 and Brexit, which has led to a national shortage of logistics and security staff, has meant plans for this year’s Bath Christmas Market have been “reshaped”. / “We are so sad to announce that the Bath Christmas Market we know and love will not be going ahead this year.”
A RESTAURANT owner said unless the Government reverses Brexit, all industries are going to suffer.
Brexiteers promised to “take back control.” But the decision has instead delivered recession, gloom, and despair.
BORDERS Buses is facing a “major” recruitment issue as fears mount that there will not be enough drivers to meet demand.
But Road Haulage Association says process described by prime minister simply ‘doesn’t exist’.
Rising energy bills, higher prices and a critical shortage of workers leading to food and fuel supply constraints are threatening to stall Britain's recovery from the pandemic.
Boris Johnson's low-paid migrants ban 'disaster' as builders, bakers and care face big hit
19/02/2020
Boris Johnson's immigration plans for after Brexit are facing a massive backlash as industry leaders say key fields - like farming, construction and the stricken care industry - won't get the workers they need.
Halo has announced it has entered liquidation after 11 years of nights out due to a combination of a change of student culture and the external pressures of Brexit and cost of living crisis.
The oil giant has warned the Government it will struggle to keep supplies topped up and called on ministers to change jobs rules for drivers.
It’s not easy to wipe the trademark grin off Richard Branson’s face, but one way is to ask the British billionaire about the challenges facing his home country.
A NORTH-east MSP has claimed businesses and households in the region are suffering due to the effects of Brexit.
Brexit is partly to blame for historically high inflation in the UK by causing labour shortages, strengthening pricing pressure among firms, and weakening the economy, Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill has said.
Brexit and the pandemic have been blamed for a shortage of vets that is leading to increasing numbers of surgeries having to close their doors.