Fresh British veg 'could be wiped out by Brexit'
By Gerard Tubb
Sky News
Sunday 16th October 2016
A leading farmer has warned that British vegetables will disappear from supermarket shelves if post-Brexit immigration controls prevent thousands of Eastern Europeans from working in the UK.
Farmer Guy Poskitt who grows 80,000 tons of parsnips and carrots in Yorkshire, says:
"It's impossible to find enough British Labourers to do the work."
Last year the number of EU nationals in the UK rose by an estimated 180,000 but the Government is committed to reducing total immigration to the tens of thousands.
He also adds:
"If you took migrant workers out of the supply chain you would within five days have no fresh British produce on the supermarket shelves"
Picking pumpkins from a nearby field for supply to major supermarkets, a group of Czech labourers said they are puzzled about why some people say they are no longer welcome.
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