The UK government has been forced to extend an emergency UK visa scheme aimed at attracting foreign truck drivers amid low applicant numbers. Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed that 127 EU workers had applied for the visa, only for the government to correct the number to 27 shortly afterward.
Britain is in the grip of a petrol and shop-shelf shortage amid a lack of HGV drivers. The government was recently forced to ease its strict post-Brexit immigration rules to offer a temporary UK visa…