Thread by @APHClarkson

That's the key difference to 1978 or the fuel crisis of 2000. In both cases the supply chain could get up again because the drivers and workers were in place in sufficient numbers to shift goods around the economy. The UK now needs to find workers that may go to the EU instead

https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1441293702819762176

Alleviating the supply chain crisis in the UK requires fundamental structural change to UK political and economic life. It involves improved conditions to attract domestic workers and fostering a state welcoming culture to attract needed migrants who can go elsewhere in Europe

Brexit is one of several factors exacerbating structural shifts in the UK economy that have been building for a decade. But anti-migrant political culture severely exacerbated by Brexit debate is a key barrier to policy needed to sustain the UK economy in times of labour shortage

And this isn't about attracting EU or EU system migrants anymore. East European societies have their own labour shortages, with East Europeans also finding work in EU states with labour shortages and easier access to labour markets.

This is about attracting non-EU migrants.

If we are shifting from a labour surplus to global labour shortages then the UK is in competition with the EU for non-EU migrant labour to keep supply chains, services, healthcare and manufacturing going.

That's a world in which anti-migrant political culture is economic suicide