TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019

Government ‘secretive’ over

no-deal food shortage

Supplies face unprecedented disruption, experts warn

Transport and storage of goods would be harder if UK crashes out of EU (PA)

BEN CHAPMAN

The UK faces food shortages in the aftermath of a no-deal Brexit that will disproportionately hit poorer
households, yet the government is being secretive about the true extent of the problem in an attempt to
avoid consumers panic-buying, according to a leading food policy academic.

Writing in The Lancet, Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University, warned that the UK’s food
supply faces levels of disruption “unprecedented” in peacetime. The government estimates that half of
lorries entering the country will be unable to cross the border smoothly and that the flow of trucks could

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