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Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg told LBC the UK’s labour shortage is due to “disruptions” due to the effects of Covid, rather than Brexit or “European labour movements”.LBC journalist Camilla Tominey asked Rees-Mogg whether the fuel crisis that has affected the UK in the past days is related to the “1.2 million workers” that have gone back home to EU countries.Mr Rees-Mogg’s reply pointed at Covid as the main cause.He said: “The lorry driver shortage is nothing to do with European labour movements. 89% of lorry drivers are UK born and bred in 2021, exactly the same level as in 2016.”

Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg told LBC the UK’s labour shortage is due to “disruptions” due to the effects of Covid, rather than Brexit or “European labour movements”.

 

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BREXIT IS DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY

Jacob_Rees_Mogg Tory rich git moron making excuses yet again! He’s better of asleep in the House of Commons?

And why only in UK?

For goodness sake!

What is it with the public? In general, if a posh person lies they believe his lies ! The Tory party just come on TV and blatantly lie, they have no ethics, no shame and why would they? The gullible public just keep voting for them. They just laugh all the way to the bank

Wouldn’t expect him to say anything else.

Brexiteers are rubbish at taking the blame for what they've done & that's a fuel shortage, food shortages, not enough care workers, not enough NHS workers, not enough farm workers, not enough factory workers. Coventry City used to be in the Premiership. That could be the UK soon.

he's lying

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