Dominic Raab: Hire prisoners and offenders to drive lorries
The Justice Secretary said prisoners and offenders should be given "skin in the game".
The Justice Secretary said prisoners and offenders should be given "skin in the game".
That 👏 doesn't 👏 mean 👏 it's 👏 stabilising!
Experts said European haulage firms have "more flexibility to deploy labour" than post-Brexit Britain.
Sir Keir Starmer had taken the messiah complex of Tony Blair, the facial expressions of a constipated Gordon Brown and the music David Cameron bops to at his Chipping Norton soirés.
The Labour leader said the UK needs a plan to "Make Brexit Work" in his long-awaited conference speech.
"Let's be clear, shortages right across the country, shortages of fruit pickers, shortages of builders, shortages in terms of lorry drivers: all of that is down to Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab and the promises they made to the British people," David Lammy said.
"Not enough choice already? I wish all the people on the streets, those on UC or other benefits could be so choosy."
"That's Christmas f*cked again then," said one frank social media user.
He described the "arrogance" of assuming people would uproot themselves only to be told they will be discarded at Christmas as "breathtaking".
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