Leaving the EU has led to a decline in crops and fewer home-grown products on the shelves of Britainβs supermarkets, farming chiefs have warned, reports The Independent
Farmers in Kent told a visiting group of MPs that it has become easier to import some fruits than harvest them because of strict limits on the seasonal workers from the EU.
Stephen Taylor, managing director of Winterwood Farm in Maidstone, said: βThe flow of people coming from Europe to work for the summer has declined every year since Brexit, particularly the last two summers, and as a direct result we are now growing less and importing more.β
Ellwood
This news emerges as Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has suggested Britain rejoin the EUβs single market to help ease the cost of living crisis.
Ellwood indicated that exports to EU had shrunk by Β£20bn, with fishers and farmers facing particular hardship, and the issue of the Northern Ireland protocol remained unresolved.
He wrote: βAll these challenges would disappear if we dare to advance our Brexit model by rejoining the EU single market (the Norway model).β
However, Priti Patel has told Tory MPs pushing for the Prime Minister to resign to βforget itβ.
Ms Patel said writing letters of no-confidence in Boris Johnson was a βsideshowβ and the party should be focused on βreal challenges that we have to find solutions toβ.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, she said: βThis isnβt about a parade (of leadership candidates) or a contest of letters. We need to concentrate on doing our jobs.
Polling
It comes as an interesting statistic came out from YouGiv Brexit polling.
It was noticed by David Herdson that every region now considers Brexit to have been a mistake
He added that the poll was from last week:
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