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Boris Johnson has bowed to industry demands to issue visas to foreign truck drivers as a crisis that has led to empty supermarket shelves and panic buying at gas stations threatens to undermine his government.
Amid shortage warnings until Christmas, the government said on Saturday evening it would issue 5,000 visas to truck drivers and 5,500 to poultry workers, to help businesses overcome a staff shortage that has been exacerbated by the post-Brexit crackdown on immigration from the European Union. He also recruited examiners from the military to perform truck driving tests over the next 12 weeks.
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