WATCH: Flashback to Nigel Farage dismissing Brexit food shortages as ‘utter tosh’
In a video from 2019, Farage says passionately that the food shortages threat is "Project Fear" and "should be utterly, completely, totally, disregarded.”
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The UK is the first and so far only country to have left the EU and Brexit was and is the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom). The official withdrawal was at 23:00 31 January 2020 GMT (00:00 CET).
Seasonal flu jabs ‘delayed because of lorry driver shortages’
A professional body representing GPs has warned that the Brexit-caused shortages in HGV drivers will massively impact on practices and patients.
Food price rises ‘imminent’ because of Brexit shortages, industry warns
One industry representative said there are 500,000 vacancies across the supply chain, which means Brits should expect food prices to increase.
Raspberry farm – who couldn’t find local workers – stripped bare after free fruit offer
They had considered hiring European workers at the beginning of the pandemic last year but decided to try and hire locals instead.
Sausage maker to start employing prison inmates to overcome post-Brexit labour shortage
He also called for the fast-tracking of Afghan refugees being processed to fill the void of workers.
‘Brexit continued to make its mark’ as growth slows as post-lockdown boom subsides
"With the third monthly fall in a row, new order growth failed to impress and work from overseas barely rose."
Bin collection shortage: Councils plead to relax immigration rules to ensure collections continue
It comes following an apparent exodus of drivers from EU countries.
Watch: Does this ‘Diagnosis Brexit’ sketch sum up leaving the EU for you?
It come as the Irish Government said the NI Protocol is ‘causing damage to political stability.'
Supermarket shortages: ‘Xmas is going to be incredibly challenging in some areas’
“If we can’t recruit people and fill those vacancies then retailers will need to look elsewhere and we’ll end up offshoring some of that production to places like Europe.”