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Life without EU workers

What the loss of foreign workers means for businesses, families and life in Britain

  • A strawberry picker at a fruit farm in Hereford.

    ‘All my friends went home’: a fruit picker on life without EU workers

  • Veryan Palmer at The Headland, a hotel in Cornwall

    ‘People expect cheap food, drink and accommodation – that horse has bolted’: a hotelier on life without EU workers

  • Tasneem Alonzo, joint managing director at EHL, standing next to sacks of produce on shelves in a warehouse.

    ‘It puts more pressure on the remaining staff – you have to divide the work’: a spice importer on life without EU workers

    From overtime to having to cut back its next day delivery service, Tasneem Alonzo’s ingredients business has been hit hard by a lack of warehouse workers and drivers
  • Jamie Shackell, who runs an au pair agency

    ‘Families are desperate’: an au pair agent on life without EU workers

  • Sebastian Przetakowski: ‘Everyone is struggling to find workers.’

    ‘I’m fully booked, but can’t take on jobs’: a builder on life without EU workers

  • Katy Etherington: ‘Personal assistants enable us to live, to work, not to just exist.’

    ‘Carers enable us to live, not just exist’: a personal care employer on life without EU workers

  • Anas Zein Al-Abdeen, managing director of Damascena, Birmingham

    ‘I don’t blame customers for getting annoyed’: a coffee house owner on life without EU workers

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