"I have been running restaurants for the best part of 30 years and I have never before closed a service due to staff shortages. The problem is not Covid, but Brexit," a reputable pub owner has said.
The government said employers should not rely on ‘foreign’ workers and focus on training our domestic work force.
"95 per cent of all fruit and produce picked and packaged in this country is done by eastern Europeans," a farm managing director has said.
"Our high streets are going to look very different."
“I think the pandemic made some people realise that the ‘low skilled migrants’ are, in fact, amongst the key workers keeping our society together."