As Johnson and Gove back off their pledge to scrap VAT for fuel, EU structural funds are not being fully replaced.

"The first rule of Brexit Club is you don't talk about all those "benefits" you mentioned 5 years ago..."

NICOLA Sturgeon has insisted that the HGV driver and fuel shortage crisis is a result of Boris Johnson’s “reckless” Brexit policy – and has called for the UK Government to “urgently revisit their entire post-Brexit immigration policy”.

UK Labour frontbencher David Lammy has blamed Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal for the HGV driver shortage.

As the possibility of a no-deal Brexit scenario increases, and the government publishes its “no-deal preparedness” notices, it is worth taking stock of the sheer variety of problems that would arise with a no-deal Brexit – and the devastating consequences that would arise from such a legal limbo. Here’s what we know so far.

IN September 2019, the UK Government made public its list of “reasonable worst case assumptions” in the wake of a no-deal Brexit.

"#Newsnight was the first TV programme to highlight this in the summer... the government could have acted then." / As BP closes sites due to a lack of lorry drivers, the Road Haulage Association's Rod McKenzie says issues are down to Brexit, the pandemic and a historic shortage

Next, one of Britain’s biggest clothing retailers, warned it may struggle to deliver its normal service in the run up to Christmas unless the government relaxes post-Brexit immigration rules to allow more workers into the country.

The decision to limit immigration at a time of severe market shortages of drivers has escalated a squeeze into a crisis.

Shortages are the only thing we don't seem to be running out of in the UK right now.

Newspapers have splashed the UK’s struggle for fuel across their front pages as the Army mobilises to ensure petrol pumps don’t go dry.

With inflation set to rise, alongside the cost of shopping and transport, the economic fallout will squeeze Britons’ budgets.

Continent’s press liken situation to 1970s Winter of Discontent and ‘boycotted Cuba’.

ANGUS Robertson has said that Brexit is the "biggest single factor" in the UK's supply chain crisis.

PM’s remarks come as Liz Truss insists it’s the role of business, not ministers, to resolve such problems.

Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves spoke to Channel 4 News ahead of her conference speech. She said she has “no plans whatsoever” to increase income tax adding that Brexit has “played a part” in the shortage of HGV drivers causing fuel shortages and queues at petrol stations across the country.

Britain has been outside the EU’s legal regime for a year and has faced a number of impacts.

UK’s exit from EU ‘no doubt will have been a factor’, transport secretary concedes.

Thousands of British petrol stations ran out of fuel due to panic buying on Monday, after days of long queues at pumps caused by the lorry driver shortage. Analysts say that, in addition to Covid, the speed of the Brexit process bears a lot of responsibility for the crisis...

EMPTY SUPERMARKET SHELVES, queues at petrol stations and pumps running dry is far from what one would expect from Britain in 2021.

The British government is warning that the country’s fuel crisis is likely to last for another week. Gas stations across Britain have had to shut down because a lack of truckers has caused huge supply difficulties. As special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports from Brighton, on the southern coast of England, the problems appear to be one of the side effects of Brexit.

More than a third of executives cite Brexit as the ‘primary cause’ of the fuel crisis, a sign that a business backlash looms at the Conservative Party conference.

US and European media give their verdict on the fuel, food and labour crisis they say is caused by Brexit

Comparing the stories encouraging people to vote to leave the EU to those we've seen in recent weeks paints rather a bleak picture.

As Boris Johnson careers towards a no-deal Brexit, what are the latest reports on the impact it would have?