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UK brewery boss slams Brexit as he’s left beerless in France
“During the whole Brexit campaign we were promised seamless trade with the EU, but it’s not happened and it’s being cloaked behind Covid excuses, and once we get over this hole of Covid problems, people will see Brexit as being a huge problem," the UK brewery boss told TLE.
In pictures: Huge queues at petrol stations as motorists panic-buy fuel
Motorists are scrambling to buy fuel amid energy shortages, with long queues snaking round petrol stations.
Insulate Britain blockades the Port of Dover
“We need a Churchillian response: we must tell the truth about the urgent horror of the climate emergency," a spokesperson said.
‘Post-Brexit apocalypse’: European newspapers react to UK shortages
“Brexit and its consequences are news all over the globe because what is happening in the UK isn’t happening there," one Twitter user said.
School staff receive threats of violence amid anti-vaccination campaign
It comes on the week that the Covid-19 jab is starting to be rolled out to pupils aged between 12 and 15 across the UK.
Brexit-backing newspapers say Britain is ‘running on empty’
"Alright which one of you didn't beLEAVE hard enough?", James Felton posted.
‘Supermarket shelves will go empty’, farming industry warns
The National Farmers’ Union has asked the government to bring in a Covid Recovery Visa which would enable UK companies to recruit from abroad.
‘Effortlessly rivalling North Korea’: Daily Express publishes Britain’s 10-year plan to become ‘superpower’
"We don’t even have a ten-minute plan, or any petrol or fresh food", one person pointed out.
Petrol to be rationed as driver shortage bites
BP's head of retail said it was important the Government understood the “urgency of the situation”, which she described as “bad, very bad”.