Government departments, including the Ministry of Health, have announced plans to stockpile products currently imported from the continent in preparation for a no deal Brexit. Wholesalers have suggested Theresa May could soon seek to launch a "triage" mechanism to ensure essential services continue to receive the stock they need should Britain quit the European Union without an agreement. Prof Lang claimed orders for civil servants from across departments to focus their efforts on a no deal signals the Government is also preparing for "rationing."
Speaking to the Today programme on Saturday, the food policy expert said: "The Government is basically going into rationing.
"It’s sometimes done by pricing, by quotas – triaging is a polite way of saying it’s going to determine who gets food. This is really very, very bizarre indeed, I have to say that. But it’s happening.
"The companies are broadly in the dark, they have been trying to talk to the Government, there’s been an explosion of civil servants taken on – which is actually a good thing – but there’s a clog up inside the civil service because the ministers can’t agree on what they want. It’s a very extraordinary situation."
Officials that work across five departments such as education, justice and welfare are among thousands of staff being told to take up new roles within a matter of weeks as the March 29 cut-off date for when Britain could crash out of the EU without a deal draws ever closer.
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