Adding lorry drivers to the skilled worker list might help fill supermarket shelves – if, of course, such drivers want to come and work for UK pay rates
If ever there was a time to drop laissez-faire economics in favour of some Whitehall planning it is now. With businesses rapidly running out of stock and the clock ticking on securing imports for Christmas, it would seem sensible for ministers to sit down with the worst-affected industries and work out a plan.
Yet the business community says it is being told to sort itself out, even as the lack of vital components – some of them stuck in China and some at British ports – forces them to lay off staff.
