Shapps in talks to offer emergency visas to EU workers to tackle airports chaos

Plans are being discussed to issue baggage handlers and check-in staff with temporary visas similar to those issued to fruit pickers, musicians and religious figures

Grant Shapps, the Transport Secretary, is exploring emergency action to allow an influx of foreign workers to ease the staffing crisis that is creating a summer of misery at British airports.

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