BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 4, 2024 03:37:00
Or do anything else. last year, it was claimed by the nfu that tens of millions of pounds of crops were left on the ground, were wasted because there was not the workforce to harvest them. you presumably tell government ministers that, have they responded? i tell them that regularly. look, we've gone from 10,000 to 115,000 with a potential uplift... you mean the visas offered to seasonal workers coming specifically to do farm work? absolutely. but we don't simply have enough people who are unemployed here to do the jobs. so, this is holding our whole economy back. it's huge for agriculture, bu...