LONDON, Oct 7 — British business leaders today criticised Prime Minister Boris Johnson for lacking a plan to deal with a labour shortage crisis, after he called for them to pay higher wages.
Supermarkets are already experiencing empty shelves, while panic buying over fears of a tanker driver shortage caused petrol pumps across Britain to run dry last week. “The finger is being pointed at business as the bogeyman, but it’s much wider than that,” said Richard Walker, managing director of budget supermarket chain Iceland.
“Looking at this party conference season, there was one party of the two that came out with a pro-small business policy,” the federation’s Craig Beaumont told Times Radio. This has led to friction within Conservative circles, with others believing that low taxes are required to jump start the recovery.