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Other industries besides fishing, agriculture and broadcasting are starting to face Brexit reality.

Michelin-star restaurant stops serving lunch due to lack of staff

A Michelin-star restaurant has said it will no longer open at lunchtimes due to a shortage of staff.

David Moore, the founder of Pied à Terre in London, said he decided to halt the restaurant's lunchtime menu to "preserve" his depleted workforce....

Mr Moore said Brexit was "definitely the biggest" factor behind staff shortages, and he said the "heartbeat" of the hospitality industry was "young kids" coming from abroad to work in restaurants and bars to gain life experience and new skills.

"[The government] don't realise the huge commodity we have that they have excluded us from, that keeps this industry moving more than anything else," he said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57555608

Steel import plans slammed as ‘madness’ by UK trade group

UK Steel director-general Gareth Stace said the proposal was “a hammer blow to the UK steel sector and to the many thousands it employs”. He warned the measures would leave the UK “a magnet for huge volumes of steel imports”.

“The recommendation by TRID to remove huge elements of the protection steel manufacturers require against import surges is madness and one that needs to be urgently rethought,” he said. He called on the government, which will consult on the proposed measures, to extend existing steel safeguarding measures for three additional years.

“It is beyond worrying to consider the damage this could do to the UK steel sector and its long-term viability,” he added, pointing out that the US and EU had maintained their import restrictions on steel products.

https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/g...up-21-05-2021/