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‘The kingdom of empty shelves’: European newspapers blame Brexit for UK supply chain crisis
24/09/2021
Continent’s press liken situation to 1970s Winter of Discontent and ‘boycotted Cuba’.
Scotland's food and drink industry is warning of price rises and potential shortages when new Brexit rules on imports come into force in April.
Spiralling inflation, crops left in the field and travel chaos: 10 reasons Brexit has been disastrous for Britain
03/02/2022
As small businesses crumble, shelves get emptier and the care-worker shortage intensifies, life outside the EU is having a dire effect on many of us. Why aren’t politicians talking about it?
Brexit has made supply chain "bottlenecks" worse in the UK, according to the independent financial watchdog that provides the government with data.
Spaces on Northern Ireland shelves only going to get worse, says food sector… Brexit and Covid crisis blamed for ‘perfect storm’ of driver shortages
02/09/2021
Gaps are appearing on supermarket shelves in Northern Ireland, including at our biggest grocer Tesco, as stores struggle to keep up deliveries amid a shortage of lorry drivers.
THE SNP’s Westminster leader has made a plea to Scots who are undecided on independence as the consequences of Brexit become more apparent.
Today marks 100 days since Brexit properly happened in the UK - with seamless trade and EU rules replaced by a weighty trade deal.
High street retailer says border controls are leading to gaps on the shelves and tons of food being spoiled.
Britain has been outside the EU’s legal regime for a year and has faced a number of impacts.
The retail chain says trading conditions following the UK’s departure from the European Union make continuing the cross-Channel venture impossible.
Alastair Campbell hit out at the West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP over his views on the shortages.
UK’s exit from EU ‘no doubt will have been a factor’, transport secretary concedes.
From one end of the supply chain to the other, the UK's food producers have endured a summer of trouble.
Neale Richmond: Boris' Brexit is the real cause of the haulage and energy crisis in Britain
30/09/2021
EMPTY SUPERMARKET SHELVES, queues at petrol stations and pumps running dry is far from what one would expect from Britain in 2021.
Export health certificates on food from the EU will now only be needed from July 1 next year - instead of October 1 under previous plans - after a crisis of lost lorry drivers and empty shelves.
Brexit impact ‘will get worse’ with supermarket shop to cost more and some EU products vanishing from shelves
21/09/2021
A leading customs expert who predicted the truck driver shortage and issues causes by the sea border in the Irish Sea believe delayed bureaucratic customs laws will lead to meats, fruit and vegetables from the EU being too costly to import.
Britain’s departure from the European Union has triggered the biggest change in trade since it joined the bloc 48 years ago, with companies grappling with export documents, longer delivery times and the need to re-engineer supply chains.
Analysts in Europe say Britain committed “Anglo-Saxon suicide” when it voted for Brexit.
'We're weeks away from gaps on the shelves': Business leaders issue stark warning to PM over food shortages
23/06/2021
Food producers and road hauliers have warned the government that the supply of food and drink to supermarkets is “failing” due to a chronic shortage of HGV drivers.
Lines of cars snake from gasoline stations. Fights break out among angry motorists trying to get fuel. Grocery staples are out of stock on store shelves. A charity warns that doubling heating bills will force a million households to rely on extra blankets to stay warm.
Food bank charity Trussell Trust warns rise in prices will lead to more families relying on grocery handouts
16/02/2022
Three food parcels are handed out to struggling households every minute, as Tesco boss warns worst of supermarket price rises are ‘yet to come’.
British supermarkets that have stores in Europe are facing supply problems because of post-Brexit rules on exports to the EU. It's affecting fresh produce at 20 Marks and Spencer stores in France, Morrison's in Gibraltar, and a chain of UK supermarkets in Belgium is on the verge of closure with no deliveries since December.
56 per cent of Britons have now noticed food shortages in their local shops or supermarkets, as Brexit-caused supply chain problems continue. / The figures are up from 45 per cent in mid August, and 36 per cent in late July, according to YouGov polls. / Of the 56 per cent, the age group which most noticed the shortages are those aged over 50.
A fruit and vegetable buyer for a major supermarket told James O'Brien the reality of how food supplies and prices would be affected in a no-deal Brexit - and it's not good news.
Lord David Frost will declare 'the long bad dream of EU membership is over' amid punch-ups on petrol forecourts, empty supermarket shelves and warnings thousands of pigs will be dumped in skips.