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- Britain will see “food rotting at ports,” unable to be transported to shops and the consumers who need it if the UK falls to avoid a cliff edge Brexit, a major industry body has warned.
- In a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May and chief EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, the British Retail Consortium (BRC), warned of chaos at ports in such an event.
- The UK to imports roughly one-third of all its food from the European Union.
LONDON — Britain will see “food rotting at ports,” unable to be transported to shops and the consumers who need it if the UK fails to avoid a cliff edge Brexit, a major industry body has warned.
“It is time for a reality check on the damaging consequences for millions of UK consumers and tens of thousands of EU-based producers if we fail to reach an agreement in the Brexit negotiations that protects the free flow of goods between the EU and the UK,” a letter from the British Retail Consortium addressed to both Prime Minister Theresa May and chief EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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