Keir Starmer calls on Boris Johnson to get a grip on fuel crisis
dailyrecord.co.ukfilling stations ran dry. Speaking in Brighton at the Labour conference, Starmer said: “The Government has reduced the country to chaos as we track from crisis to crisis and the Government is not gripping this.” “I spoke to the haulage sector this morning, to the businesses that are absolutely in the middle of this, and they are beyond frustrated."Starmer added: “They said it’s a Government that is denying there’s a problem, then blaming somebody else, and then coming up with a half-baked plan.”The Labour leader echoed the doubts of the haulage industry that the Government’s plan to issue 5,000 three-month visas to foreign lorry drivers to make up for the shortage of truckers would work.Starmer said there was a “strong view” that they would.
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