‘Not the Brexit I wanted’: Next boss calls for more foreign workers in UK

Seasonal migrant farm labourers from the EU pick lettuces in Lancashire, England. Lord Wolfson says ‘we have got people queueing up to come to this country to pick crops that are rotting in fields’. Photograph: Alamy

Simon Wolfson, the chief executive of the clothing and homeware retailer Next, has urged the government to make it easier to allow foreign workers into the UK and said this is “not the Brexit I wanted”.

The Conservative peer and Brexit supporter said the government was blocking much-needed workers from entering the UK, even though firms were desperate for labour.