Food production in the UK at risk of moving overseas, warns industry
A retail group says shortages of drivers and other staff mean the sector is “just on the edge of coping”. …
“We’ve got a very highly skilled, well run food manufacturing sector in this country at the moment which exports quite widely. It’s under such strain at the moment and if we cannot recruit people and fill those vacancies, then retailers who buy those products to sell to us as consumers will need to look elsewhere and will end up offshoring some of that production into places like Europe,” he told the commission.
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