Are Boris’s policies plunging the UK into another winter of discontent?

His legacy depends on how he handles labour and economic issues that have come on the back of Brexit and Covid-19

05 October 2021 - 19:09 By Guy Faulconbridge

The UK’s 25-year-old model of importing cheap labour has been upended by Brexit and Covid-19, sowing the seeds for a 1970s-style winter of discontent, complete with worker shortages, spiralling wage demands and price rises...

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