Brexit staffing problems risk Christmas turkey shortage, poultry farmers warn

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Nick Allen, chief executive at the British Meat Processors Association, told The Independent: "The supply problems are coming from the underlying labour problems happening since Brexit...
56% : An Avara Foods spokesperson said: "Our concern is recruitment and filling vacancies when the UK workforce has been severely depleted as a result of Brexit."
53% : Serious staff shortages caused by Brexit could mean there aren't enough turkeys for Christmas, poultry producers have warned.
50% : It's certainly Brexit-related, but it's also the immigration decisions our politicians are making since Brexit."
48% : The British Poultry Council (BPC) said its members, which includes the country's largest supplier of supermarket chicken, have told them that one in six jobs were unfilled because EU workers have left the UK after Brexit.

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