I’M flattered Pamela Frankland recalls my suggestion from last year to solve the lack of farm workers to pick fruit by hiring students on the

summer holidays (Letters, Jun 15).

By coincidence signs have again gone up near me inviting the public to drop by to pick their own strawberries at a local farm and so I would ask again, if the public can be trusted to gather their own harvest without three months training or filling in health and safety assessment forms, then why couldn’t students?

I would imagine even a first year sociology student should be able to learn the drill pretty fast.

Trying something new is the only way that you gain experience at anything and this isn’t rocket science, it’s simply hard work which every young person should be taught about.

Should the young of today need some inspiration and training I can think of nobody better to demonstrate how to handle a marrow than their own idol, Jeremy Corbyn.

We could also put David Miliband on the fruit division and Dianne Abbot could run the accounting.

Should the pork markets suffer from a similar shortage we could always ask Liz Truss for help recruiting.

But seriously, post Brexit the supermarket shelves are not going to become empty, there’s plenty of labour potential, it just needs motivating.

Dr Scott Marmion, Woodthorpe, York