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By offering higher wages — rather than rely on foreign labour. earlier i spoke to alex veitch from logistics uk. i asked him how serious the situation is. it is serious and it's getting worse. we aren't making this call for 10,000 temporary visas for qualified, safe eu nationals to come back to the uk and tide us over for the peak christmas period, the build—up to which starts now, to give us time to catch up from the missed driving tests and to reskill and retrain uk nationals to take up the manyjobs available in our sector. the government have already rejected that call and have said you...

Getting worse. we are making this call for 10,000 temporary visas for qualified, safe eu nationals to come back to the uk and tide us over for the peak christmas period, the build—up to which starts now, to give us time to catch up from the missed driving tests and to reskill and retrain uk nationals to take up the manyjobs available in our sector. we see that wages are rising. we are working hand in glove with the government on reskilling, on apprenticeships, on trying to get people into our sector where there are jobs available for people impacted by covid. the problem is that it has been ...

Leaders who currently control the situation there, or to find other ways of getting them out? what's your take on it? there's a few different things that we should do now. we should try to extend that agreement beyond the 31st of august. that will mean that we will need some kind of military presence in the country in order to make sure that that is upheld. that's one of the reasons why the united states is so important, because if all their troops leave at that hard deadline on the 31st of august, that's going to be very, very difficult. i've been talking to a number of the embassies in the r...

And we need to work with our allies. one of the suggestions that i've made in a letter tonight is that we've had repeated reports from aid agencies of planes leaving kabul half full or virtually empty, and that i think is because we have very limited time on the runway because the runway is so crowded. could we be working with other countries who are trying to evacuate their citizens and afghans who supported them as well to make sure that we are just getting people onto the planes as quickly as possible and set up processing centres outside? we've got just a few days left until that agreement...

Are with the victims�* families. at least eight people have died after hurricane grace made landfall in mexico today, causing severe flooding and mudslides. the category 3 hurricane produced maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour when it arrived in veracruz state in the early hours of the morning. the nearby river actopan burst its banks, and the storm also caused power cuts and brought down trees. the british government has rejected a call to issue 10,000 temporary visas to eu workers to tackle an estimated shortage of 75,000 lorry drivers. logistics uk — the trade body which repre...