Johnson’s Trucker Visa Move to Get Gas Flowing Called Inadequate
- Country needs HGV drivers, poultry workers to stem shortages
- Businesses say measures are not enough to fix supply chains
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Boris Johnson caved in to industry demands to issue visas to foreign truck drivers, as a crisis that’s led to panic-buying at gas stations and empty supermarket shelves threatens to undermine his government.
The scope of the plan, designed to address warnings of shortages leading up to Christmas, was called inadequate by the Labour opposition and some business groups -- while the U.K. transport secretary derided a “manufactured” crisis.