The Government announced over the weekend that 5,000 temporary visas will be made available to foreign HGV drivers to drive in the UK until Christmas Eve - but even backbench Tories have said it is not the answer, saying that ministers must improve conditions and the 'standing in society' of truckers. Other EU-based lorry drivers have also said they are turning £2,000-a-month more than they earn now while yesterday a left-wing Dutch HGV union boss said his members won't go to Britain to clear up the 's**t they created themselves' - a nod to the decision to leave the EU. Jakub Borzykowski, who was born in Poland but lives in Germany, said that Boris Johnson's offer of a three-month visa would not give him or other HGV drivers the security they need to move. Foreign lorry drivers say they will refuse the £4,000-a-month pay packet being offered if they return to the UK to drive tankers and trucks unless they are allowed to work in Britain for at least a year.
