Unprecedented labour shortages have left hundreds of tonnes of produce rotting in the fields.

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.

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

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...