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Earl of Sandwich sees no issue with foreign food staff

The 11th Earl of Sandwich favours a beef or chicken filling – nothing ‘too complicated’

Richard Wheeler
Wednesday 12 November 2014 20:18 GMT
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The 11th Earl of Sandwich favours a beef or chicken filling – nothing ‘too complicated’
The 11th Earl of Sandwich favours a beef or chicken filling – nothing ‘too complicated’ (AP)

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The 11th Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, has entered the debate on whether a British company should recruit in Hungary for its new sandwich factory in the Midlands.

The descendant of the man said to have first popularised the snack, told the BBC that, while he would be concerned about quality of the sandwich “going down”, for him: “There’s no reason a migrant labourer can’t make as good or a better sandwich.”

The House of Lords crossbencher, who is also a director of a sandwich-making firm, said the best sandwich is either “beef or chicken, not too complicated, and it could be a hot sandwich”.

The 250 jobs at the £35m Northampton factory for Greencore Group, which supplies Tesco and Marks & Spencer, are not due to come online until 2016.

Greencore said earlier this week that it had looked abroad because so few suitable local people had applied for jobs .

Sir Michael Darrington, a former chief executive of Greggs, said it seemed a “bit of a nonsense” for the firm to be considering hiring staff from abroad now, when the factory will not open until 2016.

Workers on the sandwich production line at a Greencore factory
Workers on the sandwich production line at a Greencore factory

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