EU chiefs Brexit warning: UKs day of reckoning for biggest ever mistake – Daily Express

The UK withdrew from the European trading bloc last year after a majority of the British public voted to leave in the 2016 referendum on EU membership. Since Brexit became reality last year, the Government has signed a string of trade deals with other non-EU nations. The country is also getting used to the effects that some experts say Brexit is having on food supply chains.

One person who warned about the impact of Brexit on the UK was Donald Tusk, former President of the European Council, the EUs political wing.

The former politician spoke for the 2019 BBC documentary, Inside Europe: 10 Years of Turmoil, which charted the UKs journey out of the EU.

Speaking for the show, Mr Tusk recalled a conversation he had with then-Prime Minister David Cameron.

The pair spoke as the results of the referendum showed that 52 percent of the British public had voted to leave the EU.

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Mr Tusk said: David Cameron called me, and he informed me that he was ready to resign.

I said yes David, it would be very difficult even to imagine that a prime minister who was the leader of the Remain campaign would be just two days later the prime minister negotiating Brexit.

It was like his day of reckoning was coming, reckoning for his biggest mistake in his life.

Mr Cameron backed Remain in a bid to see off Euroscepticism among some Tory MPs and provide an answer to the Conservative Partys decades-old questions of EU membership.

He claimed that the EUs failure to grant him concessions, including on immigration, had swung the vote in favour of leaving the bloc.

Many are so-called rollover deals with nations that the UK already had agreements with when it was part of the EU.

However, the UK has also inked new deals, including a huge free-trade agreement with Australia the first the Government has negotiated from scratch since Brexit.

The agreement means British products such as Scotch whisky and cars will be cheaper to sell in Australia.

In recent weeks however, some industry bosses have claimed that Brexit has disrupted supply chains to the UK.

Some supermarkets and trade associations have warned that there could be food shortages unless the Government eases post-Brexit visa rules for EU workers.

The chairman of Tesco, the UKs biggest supermarket, has said that more HGV drivers are needed to meet a shortfall of almost 100,000.

However, the Government has so far stood firm on the situation and its will to honour the result of the Brexit vote.

A Home Office spokesperson said: The British people repeatedly voted to end free movement and take back control of our immigration system.

Employers should invest in our domestic workforce instead of relying on labour from abroad.

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