British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would not return to ’uncontrolled immigration’ to solve fuel, gas and Christmas food crises, suggesting such strains were part of a period of post-Brexit adjustment.
Manchester - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he would not return to"uncontrolled immigration" to solve fuel, gas and Christmas food crises, suggesting such strains were part of a period of post-Brexit adjustment.
Instead, the prime minister finds himself on the back foot nine months after Britain completed its exit from the European Union - a departure he said would give the country the freedom to better shape its economy. It was the closest the prime minister has come to admitting that Britain's exit from the EU had contributed to strains in supply chains and the labour force, stretching everything from fuel deliveries to potential shortages of turkeys for Christmas.NO MASS IMMIGRATION
Conservative Party chair, Oliver Dowden, said that the government was taking measures to hire more truck drivers in general and that the government had started training military tanker personnel to start fuel deliveries on Monday. "I don’t believe in a command and control economy so I don’t believe the prime minister is responsible for what is in the shops. This is why we have a free enterprise economy," foreign minister Liz Truss told an event at the conference.
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