{"id":38499,"date":"2023-05-16T18:11:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/05\/16\/pm-announces-extending-seasonal-visas-for-fruit-pickers\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T18:11:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:11:33","slug":"pm-announces-extending-seasonal-visas-for-fruit-pickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=38499","title":{"rendered":"PM announces extending seasonal visas for fruit pickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A day after the home secretary said Britons should be trained up to pick fruit, Rishi Sunak says the government will allow 45,000 visas for foreign workers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The prime minister extended the scheme with the same number of visas available again to the horticulture sector next year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He said the number was &#8220;appropriate&#8221; and the allocation was not used in full this year for fruit pickers and lorry drivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">On Monday, Suella Braverman said the UK government must not forget its pledge to reduce net migration to below 2019 levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m001lz0r\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">This clip is from Radio 4&#8217;s Farming Today on 17 May<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-65613590?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A day after the home secretary said Britons should be trained up to pick fruit, Rishi Sunak says the government will allow 45,000 visas for foreign workers. The prime &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}