Dire newspaper headlines in August predicting the fall-out from a no-deal Brexit, for that is what we’re assured we're heading for, included “Expect severe shortage of fruit and veg.”
That’s according to a food policy expert writing in the medical journal The Lancet. Professor Tim Lang, Professor of food policy at City University, said the UK would face unprecedented levels of disruption to food supply chains.
He said that the public had been “largely kept in the dark” about the government’s view on the gravity of the situation and he called for a full-scale public information campaign. He said that public health advice such as eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day would have to be abandoned.
He views chimed with those of Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, who told the BBC that: The challenge is particularly in food, it's perishable, so you can’t stockpile today for demand in November.”
