LONDON: Britain’s flagship job support programme may have dulled the economic pain of the coronavirus crisis, but it is storing up a future problem for Prime Minister Boris Johnson: with many employees furloughed, businesses haven’t got enough staff to prepare for Brexit.
“We can’t contact many of the people we need to, ” said Jon Swallow, co-founder of Jordon Freight Ltd, based at Felixstowe, Britain’s largest container port. “The people currently dealing with the paperwork, the systems, they’re on furlough.”
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