“No one can truly gauge the damage no-deal will wreak on food prices and availability for shoppers, but as the BRC has reiterated numerous times now, it will be far worse than anything seen during Covid. Tariffs alone could add huge extra costs, the supply chain will see unprecedented disruption, and the backdrop of Christmas makes any sort of adequate planning near impossible.
What is perhaps most remarkable about the situation is that the government will be choosing to enforce this burden upon the public as it deals with job losses, business closures, and all the other financial hardships of a recession. Food poverty in the UK has been exacerbated already by the pandemic and it doesn’t take a wild leap of imagination to foresee how things could quickly get worse for those already hardest hit.”
Harry Holmes in The Grocer
Lies and Rules 