Food shortages, Brexit and COVID-19: how Britain's problems converged at Christmas
We were not surprised concerns about food shortages that emerged when France and over 40 countries imposed travel or truck movement bans on the UK after rocketing COVID-19 cases were linked to a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Soon after the Brexit referendum we warned that just-in-time delivery systems are easily disrupted, and that leaving the EU, from which the UK derives a third of its food, opened new risks and highlighted old failures that needed addressing. Trucks on a ferry at sea, freight transportation between Dover and Calais. What goes up must come down This crisis has been b...
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