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.

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.

But six years on, reality is kicking in and some of the most ardent Brexiteers - including the heads of major UK employers - are starting to change their tune.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Superdry chief executive Julian Dunkerton has become the latest company head to warn of the possible risks from Brexit to British companies.

Apparently this Brexit is not the one Leave voters wanted, and is certainly not what Remainers wanted, but it’s the one we’re all having to live with.

Next boss, thinktanks and unions criticise Boris Johnson, saying ‘shortages cannot be blustered away’

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.

Lord Simon Wolfson, who was a prominent Brexit supporter, has suggested firms could pay a tax to employ foreign staff.