The government’s Brexit strategy is on fire… just like produce from the farmers they shafted
08/09/2021
It has been a gloomy week on the sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain, as the smell of rotting and burning produce hits the nostrils of all. Or not quite...
JAMES BALL examines the areas where Britain is now feeling the painful consequences of its departure from the EU.
How cocktail of Brexit and Covid is causing mounting problems in Folkestone - and across the country
08/09/2021
But over the course of the year, a crisis, fuelled by the decision to leave the European Union, has been steadily, stealthily, stretching its tentacles around many of the services and products we expect and rely on.
Britain needs 100,000 more drivers if it is to meet demand, according to the UK's Road Haulage Association (RHA). The signs are already there: sporadic gaps on supermarket shelves, pubs running low on beer, McDonald's suspending milkshakes.
The boss of British cleaning products maker McBride (MCB.L) warned an "extraordinary" rise in the cost of raw materials such as cardboard and solvents would last for "quite some time" as the company reported an 18% fall in annual earnings on Tuesday.
Freight company director blames new requirement for EU transport firms to provide VAT and tariff guarantees.
Wastewater plants in England offered waiver because of impact of lorry driver crisis.
SHELF SHORTAGE Christmas ‘could be cancelled’ as UK food shortage crisis hits supermarkets
25/08/2021
SUPERMARKET bosses have warned that shortages could hit Christmas food supplies.
Schools told to prepare for food shortages
26/08/2021
Schools have been warned to prepare for food shortages ahead of the new school year and urged by wholesalers to “stock up”.
Popular breakfasts fall victim to latest supply-chain headache for Tim Martin – week after some of his pubs ran out of Heineken
Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin blames beer shortages on ‘industrial action by lorry drivers’ – not Brexit
01/09/2021
Heineken said strike action was actually cancelled – and that wider supply chain problems were the cause of the delays.
Shortfall in lorry drivers ‘could definitely impact Christmas’, says wine boss.
The Government is denying visas to vital EU drivers and refusing to acknowledge the continued challenges facing companies who do business with Europe. As retailers start to stock up for Christmas, they face a severe shortage of products and drivers, claims ParcelHero.
Covid, Brexit and a shortage of lorry drivers has been blamed for delays in collecting people's household rubbish. Ceredigion, Powys, Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan councils said they were already facing delays or expected further delays. Residents said their household or garden waste had been left on the kerbside for weeks.
The end of the holiday season heralds the return to centre stage of a number of burning Brexit-related issues this autumn.
Recruitment gap hitting hotels and restaurants as well as transport, CBI says.
In a video from 2019, Farage says passionately that the food shortages threat is "Project Fear" and "should be utterly, completely, totally, disregarded.”
JD Wetherspoon has become the latest victim of the supply chain crisis with bosses yesterday confirming a nationwide beer shortage due to a lack of delivery staff fuelled by Britain’s withdrawal from the EU.
Labour said the revelations "blow apart" the "myth" that UK-EU trade disruption is a temporary problem.
‘Insane’ policy preventing foreign lorry drivers from easing supply crisis, says Brexit-backing Next boss
31/08/2021
The chief executive of high street retail giant Next has blamed the government’s “insane” immigration policy for the huge shortage of lorry drivers causing chaos in Britain’s supply chain.
One of the UK’s biggest business lobby groups has hit back at government advice to invest in domestic workers, saying the move will not solve short-term labour shortages that are increasingly putting retailers and supply chains under pressure.
Britain's government has rejected calls from retail and logistics companies to temporarily ease post-Brexit immigration rules which they say are contributing to a shortage of truck drivers and acute supply chain disruption.
The acute labor shortage because of self isolation is masking the systemic challenge for businesses struggling to recruit after Brexit.
Food suppliers resort to hiring prisoners on day release as HGV driver shortage could disrupt Christmas
22/08/2021
Some food supply companies are turning to prisoners on day release to fill the gaps in their workforce.