Farmers have delivered an impassioned plea to Liz Truss’s government to expand the Seasonal Worker Scheme (SWS), allowing more foreign workers to travel to the UK to harvest crops. Conservative MPs Mark Spencer and Sir Robert Goodwill were told by NFU president Minette Batters that it had been a “nightmare” trying to have constructive conversations […]
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