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Watch: John Major warns of UK reliance on EU migrants before Brexit vote

The former prime minister said that migrants are integral to "the way we live" before the referendum.

Andra Maciuca by Andra Maciuca
2021-09-30 14:55
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A video of John Major warning the UK that it needs EU migrants to support “the way we live” before the Brexit referendum has resurfaced. 

The former prime minister told the Financial Times before the 2016 vote that Europeans are “integral” to Britain in sectors which five years later, post-Brexit, are struggling. 

He said: “Of that that comes from within Europe, 52,000 Europeans of the immigrants who are here are doctors and nurses 43,000 are academics teaching in higher education, another 80,000 are working in care homes helping the elderly and a total of a quarter of a million are working in our public services. 

“Try and deal with our transport system without Europeans. Try and get a coffee in a hotel or a coffee house or anywhere else without being served by a European. They are integral to the way we actually live.”

‘Simply not true’

Major also slammed claims the Leave campaign made about the threat posed by immigration.

“The belief that the immigration from Europe is bringing in lots of people as the Leave campaign say, who are going to be undesirable in one sort or another is simply not true,” he said. 

John Major(2016) tried to warn us that we need EU workers.

"52,000 Europeans are doctors & nurses, 80,000 are working in care homes… try deal with our transport system without Europeans… they are intrical to the way we actually live." pic.twitter.com/tSMmr1LHKy

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) September 30, 2021

Acute shortages of HGV drivers have blighted various sectors of the British economy, sparking a fuel crisis as no lorries are available to bring petrol to pumps. The Road Haulage Association estimates that tens of thousands of drivers are lacking – with Brexit and the Covid pandemic blamed.

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Transport minister Grant Shapps admitted this week that Brexit has been a “factor” in the UK’s crisis, despite claiming last week that it is “wrong” to blame the shortages on Britain’s departure from the EU.. 

Although he continues to insist that the pandemic is the main cause of the crisis, the transport secretary admitted on Tuesday morning that the UK’s divorce from Brussels “no doubt will have been a factor”.

But, he added: “On the other hand, it has actually helped us to change rules to be able to test more drivers more quickly. So it has actually worked in both ways.”

‘Direct consequence of Brexit’

However Labour’s shadow chancellor David Lammy told Shapps that shortages of staff, skills and supplies happened “largely because of promises the Conservative Party made on Brexit, which have not been delivered”. 

Meanwhile, the EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said fuel shortages in the UK are a “direct consequence” of Brexit.

The government announced over the weekend that it will allow 5,000 lorry drivers from abroad to come help the UK – but only until Christmas. However EU lorry drivers have rejected calls for them to come and work in the UK. 

Commenting on Facebook, George Mihulecea from Bucharest, Romania, said “most of the drivers left because of work condition reasons” and that it is not “worth it anymore” to come to the UK. 

He added: “I wish them luck. They think drivers are waiting at the border to be employed in UK. Drivers shortage is just the beginning, the warehouse operators will be the next to leave.”

Related: Government asks winery manager with a motorhome to become HGV driver

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