A furious Neil Parish laid into Kevin Foster, the immigration minister, for ignoring a recommendation to make it easier to bring in EU butchers and other workers – leading to a huge shortage.

Boss of @Ryanair, O'Leary: "This gov't couldn't run a sweet shop. We are fully staffed. But we are hide-bound and hamstrung by a gov't so desperate to show Brexit has been a success, when it's been an abject failure, it won't allow us to bring in EU workers to do these jobs."

"We have lost thousands of frontline staff... because of Brexit and an immovable visa system and immigration system from Westminster" / Dr D Macaskill says Brexit has led to “bleeding” staff numbers and greater pressures on healthcare.

Lilliput Services in Belfast is one of the unsung companies without which the UK's hotel industry could not exist.

Freight company director blames new requirement for EU transport firms to provide VAT and tariff guarantees.

Hospitality, retail and farming leaders all highlighted that Brexit had delivered more challenges than opportunities for the Island. They said it had created ‘more red tape’ and meant fewer European employees staying to work in Jersey.

Critics described the government’s approach to immigration as “baffling” and blamed the shortages on Brexit.

The Government has no chance of tackling its problems when PM Boris Johnson refuses to acknowledge that leaving the EU is making matters worse, says James O'Brien.

Two years after Britain’s departure from the European Union, bosses of UK businesses are reeling from the cost of Brexit, including some who voted to cut ties with Brussels.

Fruit and vegetables are being left to rot in England as Brexit deters migrants from taking up picking jobs.

The reason is the dearth of workers from the European Union, which has forced owner Fiona Carnarvon to mothball the castle's main business of hosting larger weddings on the site of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning show.

After years of cancellations thanks to COVID, this summer sees the return of music festivals to the UK - but after leaving the EU, those involved with British events are facing challenges and calling for support.

A popular, award-winning pub in Cheshire has been forced to close over the winter due to a 'perfect storm' of issues including the Covid lockdowns and Brexit.

"These are animals that they have reared, fed, looked after, cared for. To actually then kill something that's perfectly healthy to then go in the bin - it's just criminal," the head of the National Pig Association told Sky News.

House of Bruar, the Perthshire clothing, food and tourism emporium, has warned that the “true effects of Brexit” are still to be felt despite predicting a return to pre-Covid trading.

A CHESTER law firm has seen a “huge” rise in immigration enquiries, as companies look to employ foreign workers to address the post-Brexit skills shortage.

Sarastro owner Murad Magden says his business is 'on its knees'.

Lord Wolfson is a highly successful businessman, a prominent supporter of Brexit and a Conservative peer. He is, in short, the sort of man who should be in perfect alignment with a government led by Boris Johnson. He isn’t.

Pig farmers in Northumberland will be among those forced to “slaughter their own animals” to dispose of them if the situation facing the industry does not change, the chairman of the National Pig Association has warned.

The easyJet CEO tells LBC that the number of EU nationals working for the airline has dropped by 37.5% due to Brexit, causing some travel delays.

Turkey Farmer Paul Kelly tells James O'Brien how post-Brexit labour shortages are sending his market "back to Europe" as Christmas approaches.

The company has spoken out as supermarket shelves empty in Wales.

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.

Closures in 2020/21 follow 856 restaurants shutting down the year before.

From queues in Dover to rising food prices, Brexit has been blamed for a number of things impacting families. But it has given us Rishi Sunak's 'Brexit pub guarantee' - here we look at the good, the bad and the ugly consequences.

Probably not the anniversary present the government was hoping to offer the public.

Five years after the Brexit referendum, many British companies now complain about higher transport costs and more bureaucracy. But the biggest problem is a labor shortage.

New poll shows 79% think trade deals with Australia and New Zealand are bad. / Just over half (52%) of farmers said Britain should join the EU and 70% of thought we should at least rejoin the single European market, rising to 85% in the case of those working in the ancillary industries.

‘There’s nowhere for the pigs to go and it could trigger the worst case scenario, where they are put down on the farm and taken away.’

The British meat industry is warning that hundreds of thousands of pigs may have to be culled within weeks unless the government issues more visas to allow slaughterers into the country.

The airlines asked for help from the government to ease their staff shortage situation, but were turned down.

ALISTER Jack has been told to apologise to the people of Scotland for the "unmitigated disaster" of Brexit as he faced angry MPs in the Commons.

Nearly 200,000 hospitality workers have left the UK since the pandemic, despite post-Brexit visa schemes introduced by the Government, according to Caterer.com.

"#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

Britain's leading employers are pushing the government to urgently increase funding to retrain workers and allow Europeans back into key sectors as supply chains buckle under the weight of COVID-19 and Brexit.

Talk at this week’s NFU conference will be alive with financial, labour and competition concerns.

Leaving the EU has subtracted staff from airlines and airports in two damaging ways

North Ayrshire MP Patricia Gibson has blamed Brexit after new figures revealed the shortage of European doctors in the NHS.

Brexit is going so well, the government now wants to undo some of its hardline policies. The Home Office is reportedly putting the groundwork in place to allow thousands of young workers from the EU and Switzerland to fill job vacancies in the UK.

Food processors in NI have been heavily dependent on the flow of workers from the EU, which has ended as a result of the UK's post-Brexit migration rules.

A “double whammy” of Covid-19 and Brexit, which has led to a national shortage of logistics and security staff, has meant plans for this year’s Bath Christmas Market have been “reshaped”. / “We are so sad to announce that the Bath Christmas Market we know and love will not be going ahead this year.”

A RESTAURANT owner said unless the Government reverses Brexit, all industries are going to suffer.

Brexiteers promised to “take back control.” But the decision has instead delivered recession, gloom, and despair.

BORDERS Buses is facing a “major” recruitment issue as fears mount that there will not be enough drivers to meet demand.

But Road Haulage Association says process described by prime minister simply ‘doesn’t exist’.

Rising energy bills, higher prices and a critical shortage of workers leading to food and fuel supply constraints are threatening to stall Britain's recovery from the pandemic.

Boris Johnson's immigration plans for after Brexit are facing a massive backlash as industry leaders say key fields - like farming, construction and the stricken care industry - won't get the workers they need.

In historical terms, however, those transgressions will end up being little more than footnotes. Viewed from afar, Johnson’s greatest failing is liable to be what he hoped would be his glorious legacy: Brexit.

The UK is facing chaos. With supplies of some key goods becoming scarce, the military have been called in. Is Brexit to blame?

Halo has announced it has entered liquidation after 11 years of nights out due to a combination of a change of student culture and the external pressures of Brexit and cost of living crisis.

The oil giant has warned the Government it will struggle to keep supplies topped up and called on ministers to change jobs rules for drivers.

It’s not easy to wipe the trademark grin off Richard Branson’s face, but one way is to ask the British billionaire about the challenges facing his home country.

A NORTH-east MSP has claimed businesses and households in the region are suffering due to the effects of Brexit.

Brexit is partly to blame for historically high inflation in the UK by causing labour shortages, strengthening pricing pressure among firms, and weakening the economy, Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill has said.

Health systems in the UK have a long standing dependency on international staff, and over the decades this has tended to intensify at times of shortage. Today is no exception, but this period of shortfall coincides with departure from the European Union (EU)—causing rapid, and at times, concerning changes in patterns of recruitment.

Brexit and the pandemic have been blamed for a shortage of vets that is leading to increasing numbers of surgeries having to close their doors.

Brexit, and then the Covid-19 pandemic have all contributed to a shortage of bus drivers and difficulties in fulfilling timetables in Gloucstershire, the boss of Stagecoach West has said.

Britain’s top hotels are suffering from bartender shortages, with many leaving the industry or moving to new projects.

At the very time when government wants to be less dependent on food imports, it’s becoming impossible for some farmers to survive.

Olaf Scholz, set to take over as German chancellor after coalition talks, offers advice to UK.

Brexit and the pandemic are being blamed by a Horsham restaurant for an ‘unusually high level of staff shortages’ which has resulted in its temporary closure.

Labour shortages and price rises triggered by Brexit and the pandemic could leave the British food and farming industry permanently damaged, MPs have warned.

There's a nationwide workforce shortage in the veterinary sector, including public health, animal welfare and exports - with ‘huge challenges’ on the horizon.

Three years after Brexit, we asked designers, design entrepreneurs and representatives of British design organisations how the withdrawal from the European Union has affected the design industry.

A Devon garden centre company has blamed Brexit for a staff shortage as it gives away £100,000 worth of plants for free.

A SEAFOOD firm based on the Isle of Mull has blamed Brexit as it announced it is closing down for good.

A briefing by bus industry chiefs laid out the challenges for the industry after Brexit and covid.

Hinkley Point C, which is the UK’s first nuclear powerstation to be developed in over twenty years, may not be finished until 2031 and could cost up to £35bn, almost double the initial cost estimate. / According to EDF, the French firm in charge of developing the site, issues on the project had been caused by Brexit, the Pandemic and inflation.

CAUSEWAY Coast and Glens councillors have been told international travellers may not bother crossing the border into Northern Ireland when controls are introduced next year. / Tourism NI chief John McGrillen was outlining the consequences of Brexit during a Q&A session following an online address to the chamber last Tuesday.

A DUP Mournes councillor has blamed Brexit for causing a Northern Ireland workforce shortage. / Newry, Mourne and Down District Council agreed a motion this week to seek extended UK working visas for EU citizens from six months to two years.

The EU and UK are launching a joint push to get more British researchers to sign up to the £80bn Horizon science programme amid concerns about a drop-off in applications amid post-Brexit uncertainty.

The UK aviation industry’s skills shortage continues to be exacerbated by a failure to reach an agreement on the movement of labor across borders following the country’s departure from the European Union (EU). Marc Bailey ... told the group’s conference today ... that UK companies have restricted access to pilots and maintenance professionals from other European countries.

Bus routes and services are experiencing disruption across the country, particularly in the North East. This is a knock on effect from the HGV crisis as bus drivers are being ‘poached’ by haulage bosses for hugely increased wages.

UK seeing ‘biggest squeeze on living standards’ on record, says head of fiscal watchdog.

The people of Scotland must be given a choice about their future given the damage inflicted by Brexit, Constitution Secretary Angus Robertson has said. / Marking two years since the end of the transition period to leave the European Union after 47 years of membership, Mr Robertson highlighted the negative impacts Brexit continues to have on Scotland’s economy.

More than three quarters of British companies have reported that the trade agreement between the European Union and Britain has made it difficult for them to increase sales and grow their business, a British Chambers of Commerce survey showed. / "Brexit has been the biggest ever imposition of bureaucracy on business."

Vacancies in sectors most reliant on EU workers not translating into higher wages.

The Government has decided to hold firm on a 7,500 cap on medical school places – even with NHS staff shortages causing delays and disruption across the UK. But even if this cap was lifted, it wouldn’t aid an ailing NHS that lacks an adequate provision of trainee doctor places, hindered significantly by the UK’s departure from the EU.

Britons facing ‘austerity’ budget as a direct result of decision to leave Europe, former Bank of England adviser says

Five years on from the Brexit referendum new research by jobsite Indeed has found UK employees in the lowest paid jobs have been most negatively affected by the decision to leave the EU.

The end of the holiday season heralds the return to centre stage of a number of burning Brexit-related issues this autumn.

Brexit is now the Conservative Party’s sacred cow. Not so much policy as religious faith. The merest hint of criticism is regarded as apostasy by a party dangerously in thrall to an agenda that threatens to shatter the United Kingdom and leave England stuck in a permanent economic slow lane, isolated from its neighbours and friendless in an uncertain world.

System working ‘broadly as Leave advocates promised’, say think tanks’ report. / Post-Brexit immigration rules have led to a shortfall of around 330,000 workers in the UK and had helped fuel inflation, according to top economists.

The UK's economy is 5% smaller than it would have been if it had chosen to stay in the European Union, according to an analysis by Goldman Sachs.

Brexit has worsened doctor shortages in the UK, according to a study published on Sunday.

The ‘thousands of jobs’ affected by Brexit have added to travel chaos at UK airports, the boss of Ryanair has said.

Around half of UK SMEs believe that Brexit has had a negative impact on the UK’s society as a whole awhile 64 per cent believe that it has negatively influenced the UK economy.

A report from the Royal Bank of Scotland shows a near-record high number of vacancies with plummeting applicants.

Fishing leaders from the north-east coast to Orkney and the Western Isles have joined calls to plead with the UK Government for a re-think of Brexit immigration rules.

For new medical devices entering the UK market, they will only need to comply with the old, and for some, less stringent, device standard (MDR, 2002). / ... Coupled with the additional authorisation process required to reach the UK market, this may lead to delays or deter companies from selling their products in the UK altogether.

As Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to depart Downing Street, tossed from office by his own party, his legacy — the opening lines of his eventual obituary — will call him the man who “got Brexit done.” / So how is that going? What can be said about the post-Brexit Britain that Johnson is leaving behind?

Brexit is costing the UK economy £100 billion a year ($124 billion), with the effects spanning everything from business investment to the ability of companies to hire workers.

‘The project is probably now unsalvageable’, says former PM’s old employer. / The Conservatives have made such a “hash” of Brexit that the project is probably “unsalvageable”, according to Boris Johnson’s favourite newspaper.

Supply chain issues, skills shortages, increased costs and red tape among the issues cited.

NICOLA Sturgeon has said Brexit is making recruitment of oncologists and radiologists "more challenging" as she was pressed on NHS waiting times by Douglas Ros at FMQs.

A number of factors, including leaving the EU, are playing a part even as overall net migration to the UK - much of it to London - has hit a record high.

He said Brexit has made attracting talent “substantially more difficult”. / A partner in a brand new $1bn venture capital fund has warned that London risks losing its status as a global tech hub as Brexit has made attracting talent “substantially more difficult”.

Significant housing and staffing problems in the tourism sector across the strath are the result of 10 years of hostile environment policy, MP Drew Hendry insists. / He has been meeting with local operators to discuss their plight, and has spoken this week about the difficulties tourism companies now face after Brexit.

Accounts reveal Brexit-related labour shortages have hit business in Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire.

One Yorkshire farmer culled hundreds of piglets because of a processing backlog at local slaughterhouses.

A THIRD of Scotland’s largest brassica crop has been left to rot in the field because Brexit ended access for seasonal pickers.

Interest from non-EU workers in low-paid UK jobs is failing to make up for a 41% decline in interest from European workers since 2019, according to new research by job site Indeed.

Brexit has increased drug prices and worsened staff shortages in the U.K., increasing the impact of other serious issues facing the country’s health care system, a report has found.

THE SEISMIC CHANGES to the relationship with our nearest neighbours and the impact of Brexit have only added fuel to the fire of severe challenges facing health and social care in the UK today, making people less healthy and widening health inequalities.

Manabu Tamaru is shorting UK bond futures on expectations the nation will continue paying a hefty inflationary price for its divorce from the European Union.

Kent farming giant reports 8% fall in harvest due to lack of seasonal pickers – saying it’s easier to import fruit.

Kent farming giant reports 8% fall in harvest due to lack of seasonal pickers – saying it’s easier to import fruit.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE health bosses have had to recruit medical staff from further afield due to the UK’s departure from the EU as they admit staff should be paid more.

Dentists say staff have returned to their home countries in Europe after Brexit, and there are delays in bringing in new dentists from overseas.

There is a "desperate need" to reform immigration rules to address crippling staff shortages in Scotland's food and drink sector, industry leaders have said.

The number of UK businesses exporting goods to the EU fell 33 per cent to 18,357 in 2021, from 27,321 in 2020, according to data from HMRC.

STAFF shortages in the health and care sector are pushing the NHS to breaking point – and they are in part the result of a “reckless” and “cynical” decision by the UK Government to push through a hard Brexit in the midst of a pandemic.

A Stirling Prize-winning architect has opened a new studio in Berlin to make it easier to bid for jobs on the continent and hire EU-based staff.

Cross-party committee says labour shortages caused primarily by leaving EU will shrink UK food production unless dealt with.

BREXIT has heaped pressure on Scotland’s nurseries with a third of EU staff leaving the sector since 2018, a new report has found.

SCOTLAND's salmon industry is facing "acute" labour shortages due to Brexit despite average salaries of £36,000, business leaders have warned.

Brexit is making it harder for airports and airlines to recruit staff, adding to shortages that are causing travel chaos, according to a leading recruiter.

The potential threats of Brexit to Scottish farmers continue to 'vastly outweigh' the potential opportunities, NFU Scotland has warned one year on from UK withdrawal.

Three years ago, on 31 January 2020, the British flags that had flown outside European Union buildings for over 40 years were lowered. The then prime minister Boris Johnson had “got Brexit done.” Except he hadn’t.

‘Pre-pandemic we would have turned down 2-2.5 per cent because of nationality issues. Now it’s 35-40 per cent,’ says Johan Lundgren.

Builders expected to be added to ‘shortage occupation list’ to allow EU labourers to return.

Company leaders said Brexit is one of their biggest concerns – with key issues being a lack of access to EU migrants.

Three years on, we are covered in the scars of what it has done to this country.

'This government couldn’t run a sweet shop', says Michael O’Leary,

Scotland’s rural affairs secretary hit out at the UK leaving the EU two years on from the finalisation of a deal to leave the bloc.

British food prices are set to surge 15% this summer and will remain high for at least a year, in a further blow to hard-pressed consumers already struggling with the cost-of-living crisis, according to a report released on Thursday.

THE boss of retailer Next is urging the government to let more foreign workers into the UK to ease labour shortages reports the BBC.

In 2016, Warburtons' boss said: “Brexit is a very good thing to have happened. We could either continue to be in the European Union and wait for it all to collapse around us, or we could make our own way out of it and crack on as an independent nation. We decided the latter.”

A lack of lorry drivers, abattoir staff and fruit pickers caused by Brexit is threatening both consumers’ pockets and meat such as turkeys and pigs in blankets.

Now that hiring has made a comeback in London banking circles, some recruiters are complaining of a new phenomenon: too little talent.

THE UK is set to see a sharp slowdown in economic growth as mounting supply chain crisis and staff shortages, largely blamed on Brexit, threaten to derail Britain’s recovery, according to a major business group.

First-half sales fall £2bn, says industry body, as barriers are compounded by staff shortages.

It may have been over three years since the UK formally left the European Union but UK brands and retailers continue to face a slew of challenges in navigating post-Brexit trade. Drapers identifies the persistent pain points and how they are being managed.

Post-Brexit rules mean young French people can no longer just come over to find work and improve English language skills.

Now that Brexit has been ‘done’, the British government is refusing to talk about it. But the rapidly escalating crisis in the UK has everything to do with the country’s departure from the EU. The opposition, meanwhile, has gone awol.

So how is it going? In economic terms, the past year has helped differentiate the impact of Covid from the impact of Brexit. / Doing so has exposed a hefty price being paid by many firms, as well as public service employment, for dislocation of Britain from its nearest neighbour's trading bloc.

A Brexit backer has moaned about Brexit and noone is sympathetic at all. / Next chief executive officer Lord Simon Wolfson told the BBC today the government should let more foreign workers into the UK to ease labour shortages.

“Brexit has caused us enormous problems with recruitment,” the TV presenter bemoaned after facing a lack of EU staff for her own hotel.

From NHS staff shortages to export woes, the effects of the 2016 vote are still being felt.

Brexit-induced labour shortages are going to be a limiting factor in the pursuit of growth, growth, growth

Northern Ireland’s highest-honoured chef has described the impact of Brexit on the UK’s European hospitality workforce as ‘huge’. / "But Brexit has been huge. The whole industry is missing the European workforce."

The consequences of ending the free movement of people between Britain and the EU are becoming painfully clear.

Figures seen by Sky News show how firms are recruiting outside Europe to secure the skills they need, with India in particular providing staff to fill key vacancies.

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.

Certain UK flights will be operated on aircraft leased from Spain, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania.

Some British dairy farmers have been forced to destroy tens of thousands of litres of milk due to rising costs, labour shortages and an acute deficit of truck drivers which has strained supply chains to breaking point, farmers said.

Some British dairy farmers have been forced to destroy tens of thousands of litres of milk due to rising costs, labour shortages and an acute deficit of truck drivers which has strained supply chains to breaking point, farmers said.

Restaurants are also having to reduce capacity because they do not have the staff to open.

Many Brits will be forced to go without a Christmas turkey this year because of Brexit labour shortages, MPs were told this afternoon.

The impact on hard-pressed Scottish businesses - already reeling from covid lockdown - that has emerged as the biggest Brexit fail.

"Brexit is now causing builders to down tools due to soaring material costs. Brought to you from the same government who promise to 'Build back better’," political commentator Marina Purkiss said.

Inflation is rising, worker shortages are grinding us down and consumers are hurting, but No.10 is introducing measures which will make the situation worse

Stagecoach East Midlands says it is “working round the clock” to tackle staff shortages that are causing Lincolnshire bus services to be temporarily cancelled, as the impact of Brexit continues to affect business.

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.

Industry bosses say retailers will struggle to keep shelves stocked at Christmas amid worker shortage.

Brexit is having a negative impact on business, according to almost half of UK IT leaders questioned in a Computing Delta study.

Business owners have blamed Brexit for a staffing crisis on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile as the tourist season is set to get under way.

An Ipsos poll suggests that most people think Brexit is going worse than expected.

Fears of ‘unimaginable’ supply chain collapse triggered by 60,000-strong shortfall of HGV drivers.

“It is now more difficult to recruit staff from the European Union due to post-Brexit government requirements, although social care carers are now on the government’s shortage occupancy list."

The largest survey of home care providers ever conducted has found the sector is facing its worst staffing crisis in history, with thousands of vulnerable people going without care as a result.

Government ‘are standing by and watching this happen’, a leading supplier said.

A shortage of skilled trade workers has developed as European Union migrants leave the UK and demand for home improvements rises, the founder of Homeserve has said.

Jason Atherton says he will have to mothball or fully close restaurants due to Conservative policy on EU employment after Brexit.

Post-Brexit rules should be relaxed to allow English clubs to bring in more top-quality youngsters from Europe, Chelsea academy chief Neil Bath says.

A law firm in Chester has highlighted Brexit's impact on the UK's skills shortage as a growing number of companies look to hire workers from overseas.

Chief exec of BT’s Openreach has said the UK’s ability to roll out superfast broadband has become increasingly difficult because of “tortuous” recruitment hurdles as a result of Brexit.

Scotland farmers say the festive tradition could be the latest casualty of supply issues caused by Brexit currently plaguing the nation.

Britain's turkey farmers will do their best to ensure Christmas "is as normal as it can be" but shortages are likely, an industry representative has warned.

British food safety and competition regulators are “struggling to recruit and retain the skills they need to regulate effectively” post-Brexit, according to a Westminster committee of MPs.

Business lobby group warns failure to act will put UK’s economic recovery from Covid crisis at risk.

Rishi Sunak is facing fresh demands to improve the UK’s Brexit deal with the EU.

Sebastian Przetakowski, who has worked in the industry in the UK for almost two decades, said he is currently fully booked up until next year and has to turn down work because he can no longer find bricklayers and carpenters.

The Commons Public Accounts committee has warned that regulators are ‘struggling to recruit and retain the skills they need to regulate effectively’. / Recruitment issues are hampering the ability of UK regulators to function post-Brexit, MPs have warned.

A RECORD 78 per cent of UK firms attempting to recruit faced difficulties in finding staff in the first quarter, a survey by British Chambers of Commerce shows.

Crops left unharvested, healthy pigs culled and increased costs which will ultimately have to be swallowed by the consumer. Not going well, is it?

The Covid pandemic has exacerbated the problems caused by Britain leaving the EU, the report found.

Long-awaited new sea defences in Sidmouth are set to cost an extra £5million. / Estimates for the scheme have soared from £14million to £19million – with rocketing material and diesel prices, Brexit and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine blamed for the rise.

More than half of UK hauliers are considering moving operations to the EU, according to a survey.

SCOTLAND is suffering a shortage of up to 48,000 hospitality workers as a result of the impact of Covid and new immigration rules following Brexit, according to an industry body.

MOST of Scotland’s visitor attractions still have “survival” and not “recovery” as their priority, with a “staffing crisis caused by Brexit” compounding challenges arising from a lack of international visitors, a key survey shows.

The acute labor shortage because of self isolation is masking the systemic challenge for businesses struggling to recruit after Brexit.

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.

A town hall will need to stump up an extra £38m for its new wave of council homes due to soaring costs.

No matter how much the UK Government tries to make a virtue of Brexit, the decision to quit the European Union and so curb the freedom of people from the bloc to live and work on these shores continues to haunt one of Scotland’s most important industries.

The owner of Crieff Hydro said a recruitment crisis exacerbated by Brexit is harming the hospitality sector’s recovery as he seeks to fill 75 jobs.

British dairy farmers say they have poured tens of thousands of litres of milk away due to the HGV driver shortage - and fear it is just the "tip of the iceberg" ahead of winter.

Ian Wright, who leads the Food and Drink Federation, said that things are going to get worse before they get better.

UK food manufacturers are said to be rushing to hire trade specialists to cope with the delays and red tape involved with getting products in and out of Northern Ireland.

Alliance Councillor Philip McKinney said the United Kingdom electorate's decision to vote to leave the European Union is one of the principal reasons for the lack of labour.

Nine in 10 UK architecture studios feel Brexit has had a negative impact on them, exclusive Dezeen research has found. / Three years on from the UK's departure from the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020, Dezeen conducted a survey of 50 architecture studios asking about their experiences of working post-Brexit.

We have taken the decision to pause the majority of the wedding business at Highclere Castle – we’ve had to, writes Lady Fiona Carnarvon.

Driver shortages remain the single biggest crisis in the haulage industry in the wake of Brexit, with a shortfall of nearly 70,000, according to courier firm Speedy Freight – which also cites the ongoing impact of red tape.

‘There has never been a more challenging time’ for the UK’s food supply chain, according to industry leaders, who are pressing the Prime Minister to grant them access to EU and EEA labour.

Waste truck drivers are being poached by other businesses, some while on their rounds.

Business group Logistics UK has reacted with dismay at today’s (7 July 2021) announcement of the continued relaxation of drivers’ hours legislation until 8 August 2021, which governs the length of time which HGV drivers are legally expected to work.

The end of the free movement has led to a shortfall of around 330,000 workers in Britain. Most are in less-skilled sectors of the economy.

EasyJet reportedly had to turn down thousands of job applications from EU citizens because of Brexit.

An Edinburgh restaurateur has blamed Brexit and lockdown struggles for the “heart-breaking” decision to permanently shut a popular Morningside restaurant.

Olaf Scholz, poised to become next chancellor, wades into row over HGV driver shortage.

Downing Street was hoping to entice EU drivers back to Britain to fix the HGV driver shortage.

EUROPEAN workers have not been interested in coming to Jersey since Brexit and additional planned population controls are likely to exacerbate the trend, according to Jersey Farmers’ Union president Peter Le Maistre.

It comes as Brexit means fall in crops and fewer British products in supermarkets. / Leaving the EU has led to a decline in crops and fewer home-grown products on the shelves of Britain’s supermarkets, farming chiefs have warned, reports The Independent.

It comes as figures from the NHS show there are 10,582 FTE medical vacancies across England alone. / More than 4,000 European doctors have opted not to work in the NHS following the Brexit vote in 2016, research has revealed.

Manufacturing organisation Make UK said the sector is battling to fill 95,000 vacancies.

Richard Parry had a farm in Therese Coffey’s constituency and slammed the Environment Secretary's tip for Brits to turn to turnips amid a fruit and veg shortage in supermarkets.

A Coventry farmer was forced to throw tonnes of crops before they rot due to worker shortages on his farm since Brexit.

First it was a lack of truck drivers that crippled gas stations. Now Britain is facing a shortage of food processing workers that’s become so severe farmers have started culling 120,000 pigs.

Leading figures in the livestock industry say that the animals face being killed and burned because Priti Patel has failed to include the butchers on a list of shortage occupations.

The National Pig Association has said that healthy animals are being destroyed following the exodus of EU workers as there are not enough people employed in slaughterhouses.

The number of seasonal workers applying to work at one Kent-based company is down 90% in the last two years and there are fears for the future.

Farmers have held a protest outside government offices in York over claims the pig industry is at risk of collapse.

An estimated 200,000 pigs are backed up on farms because of a lack of skilled butchers to process them, while 40,000 animals have already been culled and their meat thrown away, farmers said this morning.

A UK-first consultation has been launched to gather evidence on the biggest issues facing all industries - including farming - since Brexit.

Rural voters say they’re being neglected by the government – and farmers are disgruntled too, warning that rising costs could lead to food shortages… and that post-Brexit trade deals will see them losing out to cheap imports.

Post-Brexit pressure could see farmers destroy 100,000 pigs due to a shortage of staff in slaughterhouses.

The fashion industry has warned it faces severe talent shortages after a government advisory body rejected its plea to offer more visas to foreign workers.

McDonalds joins restaurants, farmers and the meat processing industry with concerns that ‘reduced access to overseas labour would present a challenge to our business,’ reports Sian Norris.

There is no such thing as lunch for Pied a Terre and Le Gavroche as Brexit bites.

On trade, finance, migration, food standards and more, the UK suffers fresh ignominy on a daily basis.

In a video from 2019, Farage says passionately that the food shortages threat is "Project Fear" and "should be utterly, completely, totally, disregarded.”

"It's not us putting the prices up, it's Brexit." / Rosa shared some staggering statistics. Between the referendum result in 2016 and May 2018, 1900 florists shut up shop. Between May to October 2018 more floristry businesses closed.

NICOLA Sturgeon was completely unimpressed as a Tory MSP suggested Brexit has nothing to do with the Scottish Parliament during FMQs.

Three food parcels are handed out to struggling households every minute, as Tesco boss warns worst of supermarket price rises are ‘yet to come’.

The food industry is predicting a nightmare for British customers, with price rises and empty shelves caused by Brexit.

Farming and Fishing are the two UK sectors most impacted by Brexit. Experts discuss what needs to be done to recover from Brexit and thrive in the future.

More food items are likely to disappear from supermarket shelves as companies struggle to fill roles after lockdown.

Gaps are starting to appear on supermarket shelves because of a “desperate shortage” of lorry drivers – a problem that will likely lead stores to raise food prices.

Some food supply companies are turning to prisoners on day release to fill the gaps in their workforce.

Butchers, bricklayers and welders are in such short supply that UK employers should be able to recruit them from abroad when EU freedom of movement rules end, government advisers say.

The growing labour and skill shortages across the economy of the United Kingdom are fundamentally down to the explosion of the UK’s demographic time bomb. The UK has an ageing population with an ageing, shrinking, domestic workforce with, just as importantly, an ageing, shrinking, domestic business-owning class.

FRESH produce headed for UK supermarkets is being dumped due to driver shortage linked to Brexit, a major distributor has warned.

Many European drivers have left the country, Tesco chief explains.

“For restaurants, COVID-19 has temporarily overshadowed many of the anticipated effects of Brexit.”

A shortage of fruit pickers in the UK is set to spread to warehouse workers in the run-up to Christmas, the boss of toy chain The Entertainer has warned.

Authorities such as the Food Standards Agency (FSA) are struggling with a skills gap after the United Kingdom left the European Union, according to a report.

Centers do not have the staff needed to look after the plants.

The U.K. has emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic to find itself faced with an onslaught of new economic crises that have left the country in “a precarious position,” experts have warned.

One of the UK’s most promising science-based start-ups has threatened to leave the country over what its boss called political “paralysis” and a lack of clarity in national industrial strategy.

Guernsey is going through its worst recruitment crisis in 30 years amidst a "perfect storm" of difficulties in getting staff, politicians and recruitment firm bosses have said.

Shortage caused by Brexit and the pandemic, Road Haulage Association says.

A haulage industry group has said a lack of drivers will have a detrimental impact on our economy.

The sausage manufacturer has already warned of food shortages this Christmas as companies battle to find staff after Brexit.

They know that Brexit lies at the heart of what is happening, and that what’s happening must therefore be ignored.

Marco Digioia, general secretary of the European Road Haulers Association, said: “I expect many drivers will not return to the UK even if the UK Government allows them to.”

HOME Secretary Priti Patel is being asked to visit businesses in the Highlands to see first-hand the recruitment crisis facing tourism and hospitality as a result of Brexit.

AS the Highland tourist season comes to an end, some hotels are closing early due to lack of staff. If the effects of Brexit are not mitigated by seasonal visas, next summer could be even worse, say workers.

THOUSANDS of construction workers are needed in Scotland, according to new figures from the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB).

Rotating Audi Group staff takes as much effort as hiring someone for three to five years, complains CFO.

It is easier and cheaper to recruit from Australia and New Zealand, says business owner in the Alps.

UKHospitality estimates that shortages are suppressing economic activity in hospitality alone by £22bn - with the pandemic hangover and Brexit adding to an existing problem of finding skilled - and even unskilled - staff.

Hospitality industry blames Brexit for lack of available workers.

Manchester’s hotel bosses are embarking on a recruitment drive to fill the labour gaps created by Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic.

In the months after Boris Johnson signed his post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union, the coronavirus masked the economic damage of leaving the bloc. As the pandemic drags on, the cost is becoming clearer -- and voters are noticing.

The changing landscape of our relationship with the EU and the end to freedom of movement is now a reality, and with it comes serious implications for games studios who are looking to hire non-native talent from any of the remaining EU member states.

With the pandemic worsening supply chain problems and UK worker shortages caused by Brexit, there’s a chance we may need to adapt our Christmas dinners this year.

We’re still only seeing the start of the changes Brexit will bring to the seafood industry (and, in truth, the entire food and beverage sector). In the coming years, there will be continual changes as we adjust our operating model and there’s no clear view on when it will settle down.

It’s no secret that COVID-19 and Brexit have had a lasting effect on a wealth of businesses. In particular, the manufacturing sector has been heavily impacted due to the UK’s withdrawal from the single market and the subsequent restrictions on imports and exports.

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.

Perceptions about post-Brexit Britain, new visa rules and the pandemic have combined to make it more difficult to recruit EU nationals to some construction roles. What is the industry doing about this?

This week we’ve partnered with EEF on a new report ‘Navigating Brexit: the Migration Minefield’. The report highlights the need for clarity, simplicity and urgency in the Government’s messaging to stem the flow of EU citizens from the UK, taking their much needed skills with them.

We're more than a quarter of a million employees short.

Analysis: The UK’s revised-down Q3 figures should come as no surprise given business has been in second gear since 2016.

If you’re an EU school looking to recruit teachers from the UK, here’s everything you need to know about the new process.

A local authority has revealed that it is struggling to deliver highways construction projects because of a shortage of engineers likened to the national haulier crisis.

THE SNP’s Westminster leader has made a plea to Scots who are undecided on independence as the consequences of Brexit become more apparent.

Shortage of lorry drivers is ‘impacting the food supply chain on a daily basis’.

Five years on from the Brexit referendum, searches from EU workers are down 45% compared with 2016.

The political decision to leave the European Union has had the unintended consequence that the UK may not be able to access funding from Horizon Europe, the EU’s highly regarded principal funding programme for research and innovation, and the involvement of UK-based researchers in European research consortia has already been damaged by this.

Nurses and midwives trained in India outnumbered their Filipino counterparts in the U.K. for the first time this year, as Asian workers fill vacancies in sectors from health care to agriculture seven years after Brexit triggered an exodus of EU citizens, recent figures show.

Food and drink firms are seeing "terrifying" price rises, a sector trade body has said, warning of a knock-on effect for consumers.

Associate professor of horticulture at University College Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, Owen Doyle, has said that the UK horticulture sector is facing the “Brexit bonuses” of low labour supply and high energy costs.

Mitchells & Butlers, part-owned by horseracing tycoons John Magnier and JP McManus, said Brexit had compounded risks around the supply and cost of products as well as labour shortages

As gaps continue to appear on supermarkets shelves and restaurants take unavailable items off menus, Britain’s supply chains appear to be at the centre of a perfect storm of pandemic disruption coupled with post-Brexit labour shortages.

A HOSPITALITY crisis has beset the Isle of Wight, leaving busy pubs, hotels and restaurants desperately looking for staff.

This is the moment James O'Brien reacts to former Brexit Secretary David Davis telling LBC that the haulage industry's failure to act has led to post-Brexit tanker and HGV driver shortages.

Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said Brexit may have had some impact on staffing following a new report exposing major shortages in the NHS.

"How is this a debate", one person said after guests played a familiar conveyer belt game.

Staff shortages causing havoc at airports across the country have been blamed on Brexit.

"Then in 2021 we had Brexit which led to a huge increase in paperwork both for importers and exporters and the cost of additional administration. There were transport issues, hold-ups at the border and additional staff pressures, most notably in the agricultural sector with seasonal labour.

Several industries and businesses across the county say they are struggling to recruit following the government's new immigration rules.

THE Bailiwick is increasingly looking to Kenya to fill critical gaps in the job market.

Pig farmers are facing a "human disaster" due to a shortage of abattoir workers, the National Farmer's Union has said.

Labour shortages, Brexit red tape and the war in Ukraine will lead to further increases in construction costs in the UK, according to a major survey.

National Farmers Union calls for post-Brexit rules on seasonal workers to be eased to plug gaps.

They say many European workers who could have remained in the UK are now deciding to stay in their home countries.

Chef-patron Michel Roux Jr. told customers the restaurant would be open for dinner service only from mid-June and said a combination of Brexit and the pandemic is to blame.

Lidl has blamed empty shelves at some of its stores on "disruptions to supply chain networks".

A Lincolnshire organic farm will build accommodation for foreign labourers after Brexit made finding seasonal workforce increasingly difficult.

Owners of a Liverpool restaurant have spoken out about the 'perfect storm' of Brexit and Covid-19 that is currently 'washing over' the hospitality industry.

St Albans pubs and restaurants are desperately trying to recruit workers as a series of factors combine to create an extreme shortage of staff in the industry.

Local farms and businesses are finding it very difficult to find staff thanks to the restrictions imposed by Brexit.

Nightlife industry bosses warned of "very difficult times ahead" for clubs.

London firms are struggling to recruit staff amid "rapid falls" in applicant numbers in part due to Brexit, a major new report has shown.

The aftershocks of the 2016 referendum to leave the EU continue to reverberate. / The effects of Brexit are becoming increasingly clear as time goes on, and London’s restaurant industry is learning that the hard way.

"Andrew, you and I know that in 2016 there weren't shortages in the supermarkets, there wasn't fuel rationing" Lord Andrew Adonis told Andrew Castle.

The government is planning a temporary scheme to make it easier for foreign lorry drivers to work in the UK.

igration has altered the size and shape of the UK labour market in recent decades, but the move to a more restrictive regime since leaving the European Union won’t drive the ‘high wage‘ economy that the prime minister has claimed it will, according to new Resolution Foundation research published today.

Thanks to the HGV driver shortage, many refuse collectors are quitting to earn up to £30,000 more driving lorries. But what does this mean for our streets, as the rubbish and recycling piles ever higher?

The government could be about to make a major Brexit U-turn following advice that special immigration status could hold the key to plugging significant labour shortages across the construction industry.

A lack of food and farm workers “caused by Brexit and accentuated by the pandemic” meant at least 35,000 pigs were culled and tonnes of crops left to rot in the fields last year, a damning report has revealed.

Vets working to tackle pigs’ overcrowding in farms have said Prime Minister Boris Johnson is not taking the abattoir labour shortage seriously, and soon ‘mass culling’ would be the only option left to farmers.

‘I’ve never, ever seen a staff shortage like I’m seeing right now. We’ve closed the door on our friends next door and they’re not coming over here any more’

The end of the transition period was merely a staging post within a process that will be long with us, says Chris Grey.

Great Britain’s beef producers export to Ireland before reimporting, while pork processors consider the Netherlands.

In another sign of the post-Covid recruitment crisis, one of London’s oldest Michelin-starred restaurants has closed its lunch service until further notice. Fitzrovia’s Pied à Terre says Brexit and Covid have impacted recruitment so badly it is no longer able to open for the whole day.

A Michelin-star restaurant will stop serving lunch because of a lack of staff, its founder has announced.

The impact of Brexit is beginning to be felt among the population of Midlothian, which is expected to be the fastest growing for the next ten years in Scotland.

Flower growers fear end of the UK’s £100m industry as Covid and border restrictions lead to lack of seasonal workers.

3.5m heads of broccoli and 1.9m heads of cauliflower have been thrown away by just one producer.

MINISTERS have today unveiled plans to pilot a Scottish visa scheme to allow some businesses to recruit EU citizens and other foreign nationals following a shortage of workers in certain sectors post Brexit.

"Brexit remains an important event for the market and has created risks for the sector, principally around the supply and cost of products and workforce shortages."

Could take ‘decades’ to shift away from reliance on overseas staff, say food sector leaders attending Downing Street summit.

85 per cent of UK businesses have restructured in the wake of January’s Brexit deal, and the majority believe leaving the EU has negatively impacted operations, according to a new report.

The Catalan kitchen has been part of the Canton food scene for ten years but has struggled with importing ingredients and getting staff.

"We can certainly see the impact of Brexit in our visitor profile,” she adds. “We have virtually no EU visitors now."

The Northern Ireland mushroom industry will disappear unless migration rules are relaxed, an industry body has warned.

“Before Brexit and everything we were getting staff no problem.”

Nando’s has said that it hopes to reopen all of its restaurants by this weekend, after 45 were closed because of a shortage of chicken caused by staffing problems at key suppliers.

"Our sector faces major challenges in accessing the right talent, skills and labour. As the Industrial Strategy states, the manufacturing sector is one of those most likely to need people skilled in science, technology, engineering and maths."

Nearly all small British manufacturers are struggling with rising costs, according to a survey on Thursday that showed widespread worries over recruitment and logistics caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit.

Interesting new analysis published this week by UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE) considers how the post-Brexit immigration system has impacted the UK labour market in the two years since its introduction.

Employers in Northern Ireland are warning that new migration rules may cause staff shortages across manufacturing, care and food production.

Specialisms such as dentistry have shortages and EU exit still causes issues with medicines in Northern Ireland, thinktank finds.

Five years ago today, a vote took place which sent shockwaves around the world. I’m talking, of course, about the Brexit referendum.

Governments must acknowledge the fundamental reality that migrant workers don’t take jobs and benefits, but fill in essential labour needs

A Norfolk firm which has already been struggling with recruiting staff has faced extra pressures with absences due to Covid.

Hundreds of bus journeys have been cancelled in the North East in recent weeks due to a driver shortage - and a joint statement has blamed Covid and Brexit for the issue.

Top concern is labour shortages as 28% of manufacturers say trade with EU has increased.

Northumbria University is considering whether to make more staff employees of its Dutch subsidiary in order to circumvent some of the problems caused by Brexit, a pro vice-chancellor at the institution has said.

Brexit and the pandemic have been blamed and some businesses have had to change their opening hours, while others have thrown in the towel.

"There have always been health service challenges. But I can tell you that within about 100 metres from where I live on my estate there were seven health service staff, qualified nurses and doctors, that upped sticks and went back to the European Union, never to return."

A family farm that has been producing soft fruits for 75 years has said rising costs have forced it to stop growing berries. / "Many of them had come to us for years, they knew it was a good place to work," Ms Starkey said. "But with Brexit it became more difficult and they just did not feel welcome."

The Nuffield Trust think tank has published a new report on the impact of Brexit on the UK’s health and care services. The ongoing monitoring work, funded by the Health Foundation, covers the impact on the NHS and social care workforce, medicine and medical devices supply and the economic cost, and reveals negative effects across these areas.

Figures from the jobs website Indeed expose the impact on employers as they struggle to recruit staff.

Businesses in Oban are struggling to find staff, causing a growing concern as the summer season approaches.

British Chambers of Commerce urges government to ‘cut red tape on UK-EU goods movements’.

And almost three-quarters said their company had seen zero benefit from the UK's departure from the EU.

The sector relies on labour from the EU that is no longer available, producer Paul Kelly of KellyBronze said.

The past two years have been the hardest ever for restaurants. Amid critical shortages of staff, food supplies and even customers, can a new venture from the man behind Polpo survive?

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

Our silence over the issue is compounding the problem.

The boss of Oxford Bus Company has said Brexit and Covid-19 are just some of reasons the business is struggling to hire drivers, as customers feel the impacts of delays.

RESTAURATEURS say it is becoming ‘incredibly difficult’ to run their businesses due to supply failures caused by a perfect storm of problems caused by Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Another reason they cited was the effect of the covid pandemic, as well as the difficulty of recruiting staff following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union in 2016.

HEADTEACHERS have spoken of their struggle to recruit cleaners and kitchen staff, citing Brexit and the impact of the pandemic as key factors.

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

A Perth restaurant owner says Brexit and Covid related staff shortages has left him with no other choice than to close his business.

A hotel had to close temporarily and lose potential income when there were not enough staff and all over Perth and Kinross there is a big demand for people to take up vacant positions.

A pig farmer from Suffolk is set to quit his profession after more than two decades, saying that the shortage of butchers which may lead to a mass cull of pigs is the final straw.

A pig farmer who has been losing around £5,000 a week since Christmas has called for more government support for the industry.

Pig farmers are in a “desperate” position – with culls of thousands of healthy animals and producers quitting the industry, they warned as a summit was held on the crisis.

Thousands of healthy pigs may be culled if the government does not step in and tackle labour shortages at Britain’s slaughterhouses and processing plants, meat producers have warned. / It could result in perfectly good meat going to waste, says National Pig Association.

"I think the taxi trade, particularly in Plymouth, and also nationwide, has suffered through the pandemic, it has suffered because of Brexit."

This lorry driver tells James O'Brien that no European HGV operator would take up the UK's offer of a 3-month visa to save Christmas.

David Hencke reports on the national vets shortage, caused by the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, the Coronavirus crisis and a rise in the number of people buying pets.

"It is a really difficult time to find chefs everyone is struggling, it is a combination of Brexit and COVID. Lots of European chefs have returned to their country and there are not enough English chefs to replace them."

It is becoming increasingly clear that the UK and the EU must strike a post-Brexit mutual free movement of people agreement if they are both to economically thrive over the next decade and beyond, affirms one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory, asset management and fintech organisations.

The separation of the UK and the EU has had many ramifications, one of which is the loss of free travel between the EU and the UK, adding new hurdles to hiring people from Europe.

The UK hospitality industry’s labour shortage is set to get ‘significantly worse’ after the cut-off for EU settled status on 30 June, a London law firm has warned.

As the UK economy begins the long road to recovery, many businesses are wondering: where have all the workers gone? ... From farms to factories and hospitality to haulage, many industries are warning they won’t be able to bounce back unless Brexit rules on workers are relaxed. We report from Kent.

As the UK economy begins the long road to recovery, many businesses are wondering: where have all the workers gone?

Labour shortages caused by Brexit and accentuated by the COVID pandemic have badly affected businesses across the food and farming sector and could cause ‘permanent’ damage, UK lawmakers stated in a report published on Wednesday (6 April).

THE “Brexit effect” that resulted in empty shelves in shops last month and which was blamed on a lack of HGV drivers, could hit Scotland this coming winter with a shortage of drivers for gritting machines.

Coronavirus has masked the true impact of Brexit on the UK hospitality industry. Expect more hotels to bemoan the situation as they attempt to recover from the pandemic.

The amount Preston City Council spends on agency workers has more than doubled in the space of a year. / The pandemic has contributed to pushing the bill for temporary staff from just over £420,000 in 2019/20 to nearly £928,000 during the most recent financial year of 2020/21.

Abattoirs, butchers and meat processors are set to employ prisoners and ex-inmates to help plug labour shortages.

The boss of baking brand Warburtons has been toasted on Twitter after comments he made in 2016 about Brexit came back to haunt him.

Tim Martin backs ‘reasonably liberal immigration system’ to encourage workers to relocate, despite having backed leaving single market and customs union.

High-profile Brexit backer Lord Simon Wolfson has renewed calls for the Government to let in more foreign workers to alleviate labour shortages that have plagued Scottish firms and the wider UK business community.

Mitchells says Brexit has compounded risks for the sector.

Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker has made the implication that the UK’s departure from the EU, or Brexit, may be a contributing factor in the staffing-related operational woes at its airports this summer.

Sir Roger Gale said one firm has had to trash £320,000 worth of produce "because there are no pickers and no drivers".

Since the UK voted to leave the European Union, civil servants have been working to get the country ready for its departure from the bloc. Beckie Smith examines how Brexit has changed government so far.

Tourism faces massive recruitment problems post-lockdown in Devon, forcing many businesses to remain closed for part of the week.

HUNDREDS of households across Somerset where recycling collections have been missed this week will have to wait until the next scheduled pick up.