The Observer view on shortages and rationing | Observer editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Brexit has also made things worse.
63% : The end of free movement has generated a lorry driver shortage that has been made worse by the inefficiencies Brexit has imposed on road haulage: European drivers have far less flexibility to work deliveries within the UK into their cross-continent routes.
54% : All the anticipated costs and frictions of Brexit have materialised, combining with CO₂ shortages to jam up the food supply chain.
52% : The experts who warned that it could never make up for more than a small fraction of the volume of trade lost as a result of Brexit, and that it would never come to pass, have been proved right as all hopes of a quick deal evaporated when Johnson paid his first visit to the White House last week.
52% : It is not just the food supply chain that Brexit is affecting: there is also a growing crisis in the care sector, with a shortage of care workers both as a result of the pandemic and of post-Brexit immigration rules.
42% : to healthcare shows that years of neglect of Britain's housing, health and essential infrastructure, combined with the political right's almost fanatical obsession with Brexit, will come at a very high cost for families.

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