Temporary visa scheme in works to ease Christmas supply crisis
An announcement to boost HGV driver numbers by up to 5,000 is expected this weekend.
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The UK is the first and so far only country to have left the EU and Brexit was and is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom). The official withdrawal was at 23:00 31 January 2020 GMT (00:00 CET).
If you can’t beat ’em… UK to join EU’s vaccine passport scheme
Joining the EU's scheme would make it cheaper and easier for Brits to travel to Europe.
‘Fed up with bad headlines’: Boris demands fix to lorry driver crisis
As the crisis escalates, prime minister reportedly "doesn't care about visa limits any more".
WATCH: Shapps insists ‘Brexit is part of solution’ for HGV driver shortages
"We have shortages of staff, shortages of supplies and shortages of skills. It’s largely happened because of the promises that your party made on Brexit which have not been delivered," Labour's David Lammy told Shapps.
Bolsonaro claims Boris requested ’emergency’ deal for Brazilian turkeys
Brazil's president said Johnson “wants an emergency agreement with us to import some kind of food lacking in England".
UK brewery boss slams Brexit as he’s left beerless in France
“During the whole Brexit campaign we were promised seamless trade with the EU, but it’s not happened and it’s being cloaked behind Covid excuses, and once we get over this hole of Covid problems, people will see Brexit as being a huge problem," the UK brewery boss told TLE.
Fancy picking vegetables? It could earn you £62,000 a year
Job site Indeed said that 75 per cent of recruiters have raised salaries to plug staff shortages.
In pictures: Huge queues at petrol stations as motorists panic-buy fuel
Motorists are scrambling to buy fuel amid energy shortages, with long queues snaking round petrol stations.
‘Post-Brexit apocalypse’: European newspapers react to UK shortages
“Brexit and its consequences are news all over the globe because what is happening in the UK isn’t happening there," one Twitter user said.