'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.
Industry bosses call for measures to bring back Eastern European drivers after Covid and Brexit worsen a long-running shortage.
Loss of 100,000 hauliers due to Covid and Brexit will cause food ‘rolling power cuts’, experts warn
British pubs facing ‘acute’ staff shortages
03/06/2021
Restaurants are also having to reduce capacity because they do not have the staff to open.
Shortage caused by Brexit and the pandemic, Road Haulage Association says.
‘Complete nonsense’: hospitality reacts to Jeremy Hunt’s ‘Brexit pub guarantee’ policy in his first budget
16/03/2023
Operators are both baffled and annoyed with the chancellor's supposed assistance. / "To conflate this with Brexit is complete nonsense. They either want to help the pubs or not. If you want a link to Brexit, the damage done is far worse than the freezing of some duty."
Tom Kerridge says there isn’t a ‘single positive’ about Brexit’s impact on the hospitality industry
03/11/2022
"Overseas workers visas is something we need to be looking at. There's over 200,000 vacancies within hospitality up and down the country."