The UK government is poised to temporarily ease visa rules to attract more foreign lorry drivers, reports said Saturday, as it grapples with a growing shortage that has now hit fuel supplies.
The move would represent a U-turn by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose government has tightened post-Brexit immigration rules and repeatedly insisted Britain’s reliance on foreign labour must end. As well as threatening timely fuel supplies, the lack of lorry drivers has caused disruption to deliveries of food and other goods.
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