The UK Government was last night rushing to dampen fears that staff shortages, soaring energy bills and global supply-chain woes will lead to panic-buying in the run- up to Christmas.
Panic-buyers queued outside a Costco store in Manchester to stock up on goods including toilet roll as the ONS said one in six adults have been unable to buy essential food items in the last two weeks.
Pictures show aisles across the UK already bare of meat, fruit and frozen goods as customers were seen pushing trolleys loaded with toilet roll and water bottles ahead of the festive season.
Around one in six British adults have been unable to buy essential food items in the last fortnight, figures have suggested, amid fears of empty supermarket shelves as Christmas approaches.
Paris s noisy European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune lashed out at the UK s Brexit failures and said that France s trawlermen would not pay the price for the UK s decision to leave.