by offering higher wages — rather than rely on foreign labour. earlier i spoke to alex veitch from logistics uk. i asked him how serious the situation is. it is serious and it's getting worse. we aren't making this call for 10,000 temporary visas for qualified, safe eu nationals to come back to the uk and tide us over for the peak christmas period, the build—up to which starts now, to give us time to catch up from the missed driving tests and to reskill and retrain uk nationals to take up the manyjobs available in our sector. the government have already rejected that call and have said you should just pay british workers more. we see that wages are rising. we are working hand in glove with the government on reskilling, on apprenticeships, on trying to get