UK facing summer of food shortages due to lack of lorry drivers

Loss of 100,000 hauliers due to Covid and Brexit will cause food rolling power cuts', experts warn

The country is facing a summer of food shortages likened to a series of rolling power cuts" because of a loss of 100,000 lorry drivers due to Covid and Brexit, industry chiefs have warned.

In a letter to Boris Johnson they have called for an urgent intervention to allow eastern European drivers back into the country on special visas, similar to those issued to farm pickers, warning that there is a crisis" in the supply chain.