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Food shortages, Brexit and COVID-19: how Britain's problems converged at Christmas

  • Written by Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London
Food shortages, Brexit and COVID-19: how Britain's problems converged at ChristmasAuthors urge UK government to come clean to public about food shortages. Leoanna/Shutterstock

We were not surprised concerns about food shortages 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...