One possibility is relaxing immigration rules
Pressure is growing on the UK government to do something about the lack of lorry drivers which is causing disruption to supply chinas, including fuel, across the UK.
One proposal for ministers is to ease immigration rules.
This emergency measure could help provide some of the 100,000 drivers needed to fix the issue.
Grant Shapps provided the government’s perspective on Sky News this morning, saying that he will not take any options off the table.
However, an issue remains over testing drivers, in addition to the problem being something that has persisted for years.
Shapps was asked if the government would add lorry drivers to a list of shortage occupations, meaning drivers from abroad could receive special visas to allow them to work in the UK.
“We’re absolutely not ruling anything out at all. We want to see this problem resolved, but we also want to see it resolved in the long term,” said Shapps.
“I’ll look at everything, and we’ll move heaven and earth to do whatever we can to make sure that shortages are alleviated with HGV drivers.”
“But we need to look at the things that are going to make a difference, and the big problem is the testing of drivers.”
