“Ultimately, now I think we have just run out of time. That’s despite warnings being sounded since the summer of the scale of the potential labour shortage we might face," a food industry representative has said.
In an announcement on Friday evening, the government said 300 fuel drivers would be able to come to the UK from overseas “immediately” under a bespoke temporary visa which will last until March.
“The prime minister should be taking emergency action today but yet again he’s failed to grasp the seriousness of the crisis," Starmer said.
“It is nice to know there are specialist jobs available here for us after Brexit. We would never have been headhunted to drive a lorry if we’d gone back to Germany," one German citizen has said.
Priti Patel said European ID cards are "insecure", and wouldn't be valid for travel to the UK.
“Like a whack-a-mole game where once one difficulty is resolved, another appears soon after."
Priti Patel is resisting the move, fearing it's part of an attempted return to freedom of movement.
"Farage one day Tim Martin the next - maybe there is such a thing as Karma?" wrote one Twitter user.
Simon Clarke - a Treasury minister - claimed there were shortages all over Europe. Europeans aren't so sure.