Store shelves may be empty in WEEKS after HGV drivers lost due to Covid and Brexit
SUPERMARKETS will run out of food within weeks due to a shortage of lorry drivers, industry chiefs warn.Supermarket bosses warned of looming food shortagesCredit: AFPThe warning comes as hundreds or thousands of eastern European workers flock back home because of the impacts of Brexit and Covid-19.
Without government intervention, they warn, British supply chains could collapse "at an unprecedented and unimaginable level". "There is an enormous shortage of HGV drivers that we estimate at between 85,000 and 100,000," Burnett told the Guardian."'We don't know if it's because Europeans who would traditionally be in these roles have left because of Brexit or because of Covid and aren't able to come back yet because of the pandemic, but it is a very real problem," he added.
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