‘Jobless Britons should be made to pick fruit on farms or face having their benefits taken away, the Farming Minister said yesterday.

George Eustice insisted there would be no replacement for the Seasonal Agricultural Workers scheme that provided 22,000 foreigners a year with temporary permits to enter Britain to harvest crops. It was scrapped in September.

Instead, local unemployed people should be recruited to do the work, he said.’

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Maybe George Eustace is so keen to get free labour picking fruit because his family just happens to own and run a large fruit farm in Cornwall?

See George’s family fruit farm here …