allowing up to 100,000 drivers to meet demand, because that is the shortages far as the haulage industry is concerned. that is their pitch, but as you say, among all of that as i keep an eye on that get to see if the security guards are about to open it, it doesn t look like it, are the other issues around the cost of living. inflation in prices going on, energy prices going up alongside various energy companies going belly up various energy companies going belly up and there is real concern, more broadly in society but amongst conservatives as well, around that cost of living crisis as critics label it, and what that might mean as we head towards the winter when the rhetoric from the government is all about levelling up and the reality for lots of people is that bills are going up. reality for lots of people is that bills are going up. going back to those visas. bills are going up. going back to those visas, initially, bills are going up. going back to those visas, initially, the
the government position is, no, the brexit referendum is all about a demand for the opposite. coupled with the covid pressures at the moment, they say this is a transition period, through which the economy will work through and the outcome will be better conditions and wages in sectors like the haulage industry, but, what labour has the government pulled to try to mitigate it is one around immigration with a relaxation of the visa rules. they argue it s not anywhere near on the scale sir keir starmer was calling it, at their conference where he suggested up to 100,000 additional foreign lorry drivers should be allowed into the uk to meet the gap that currently exists as far as hgv drivers are concerned. government say there measures are much more limited because they want to see this broader transition towards
same time leading to the backlog and queue. in the broader sense, the prime minister s outlook and the current outlook on the current situation is that they say this is symptomatic of an economic transition that is a result of are positive associated with brexit because their argument is the uk is shifting from what they see as a low wage, high immigration economy, to a higher wage, low wage, high immigration economy, to a higherwage, lower low wage, high immigration economy, to a higher wage, lower immigration economy, which will ensure that people for instance working in the haulage industry are able to earn more, even if at the moment, that means there is this issue around lorry drivers and not being enough of them. the government says it s cranking the leather for now so that more lorry gyros can come into the uk but don t want to do that in the long term or what sir keir starmer was advocating at their conference in brighton last week. effectively
truck drivers and they did say they would have to be recruited by these particular agencies and then the visas will be processed, which takes about 15 days. the process has not got underway yet, it is meant to start early this month but were not sure of the date and everybody has to lead by the time it gets to the 24th of december. people in the haulage industry are concerned that is much too short of a time and they wanted a six month visa because that gives them more time to be able to train uk drivers and it was also more appealing for drivers in the eu would have to up sticks, drop everything and come over and operate here. they are concerned the shorter those visas get, the less appealing they will be. those visas get, the less appealing they will be they will be. caroline, thank you very much they will be. caroline, thank you very much indeed. they will be. caroline, thank you very much indeed. the - they will be. caroline, thank you very much indeed. the green i they will b
were going to get additional training the next few days that we not certain if they have yet appeared on the road to helping out. we know that the reserve tank is, they came out from wednesday that they came out from wednesday that the government set out so that is being driven by civilian drivers. in terms of the visa situation, these temporary visas are expected to be, the school is meant to be starting to roll to get together later this month in october. there was concern yesterday speaking to the haulage industry that the government might reduce the length of these visas from three months down to two months in the haulage industry originally said they wanted six months because it takes a long time to be to trainable uk drivers to fill the spaces they wanted to have a longer period of time. the government has said it was a three month period and now they are worried that could get squeezed and squeezed and reduced down and they say that is not long enough. the government, of course,