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Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith has hit out at Uber Eats for saying that a crackdown on illegal migration will cause takeaway prices to rise.

Takeaway apps have become a route for undocumented workers to earn a living in the UK, with illegal workers drawn to the industry by historically limited right to work checks.

Delivery riders are also known to sell their accounts or rent them out on social media to “substitutes”, who may be working illegally, with little vetting.

In a post on X, Griffith said: “Uber Eats, if you cannot succeed without the use of illegal workers, you are not a business but a criminal enterprise.”

Griffith was respo

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